It was thus the Greeks evaded the laws, and compelled the criminal’s surrender by kindling fires around the sanctuary.[4.19.69] The towns of Kanhaiya did not often abuse their privilege; but the Author once had to interpose, where a priest of Eklinga gave asylum to a felon who had committed murder within the bounds of his domain of Pahona. As this town, of eight thousand rupees annual revenue belonging to the fisc, had been gained by a forged charter, the Author was glad to seize on the occasion to recommend its resumption, though he thereby incurred the penalty for seizing church land, namely “sixty thousand years in hell.” The unusual occurrence created a sensation, but it was so indisputably just that not a voice was raised in opposition. =Endowments of Nāthdwāra.=—Let us revert to the endowments of Nathdwara. Herodotus[4.19.70] furnishes a powerful instance of the estimation in which sacred offerings were held by the nations of antiquity. He observes that these were transmitted from the remotest nations of Scythia to Delos in Greece; a range far less extensive than the offerings to the [528] Dewal of Apollo in Mewar. The spices of the isles of the Indian archipelago; the balmy spoils of Araby the blest; the nard or frankincense of Tartary; the raisins and pistachios of Persia; every variety of saccharine preparation, from the shakkarkhand (sugar-candy) of the celestial empire, with which the god sweetens his evening repast, to the more common sort which enters into the _peras_ of Mathura, the food of his infancy;[4.19.71] the shawls of Kashmir, the silks of Bengal, the scarfs of Benares, the brocades of Gujarat, ... the flower and choice Of many provinces from bound to bound,