At Sanodâ there is a very beautiful little fortress or castle now unoccupied, though still entire. It was built by an officer of the Râjâ Chhatar Sâl of Bundêlkhand, about one hundred and twenty years ago.[9] He had a grant, on the tenure of military service, of twelve villages situated round this place; and a man who could build such a castle to defend the surrounding country from the inroads of freebooters, and to secure himself and his troops from any sudden impulse of the people's resentment, was as likely to acquire an increase of territorial possession in these parts as he would have been in Europe during the Middle Ages. The son of this chief, by name Râi Singh, was, soon after the castle had been completed, killed in an attack upon a town near Chitrakôt;[10] and having, in the estimation of the people, _become a god_, he had a temple and a tomb raised to him close to our encampment. I asked the people how he had become a _god_; and was told that some one who had been long suffering from a quartan ague went to the tomb one night, and promised Râi Singh, whose ashes lay under it, that if he could contrive to cure his ague for him, he would, during the rest of his life, make offerings to his shrine. After that he had never another attack, and was very punctual in his offerings. Others followed his example, and with like success, till Râi Singh was recognized among them universally as a god, and a temple raised to his name. This is the way that gods were made all over the world at one time, and are still made all over India. Happy had it been for mankind if those only who were supposed to do good had been deified.[11]