The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-12
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A Pundit who Certainly Does some very
,uriOu> .hi,g$
A correspondent writes To tho Times
Of India: ut is we | known that Bombay
attracts from various parts of the coun'
try many persons who, by processing
nstro.ogy end other pseudo-sciences,
expect to obtain some of the superf%'
ous cash of crcdulous folks. The native
town abounds with such people. some
of whom are sojourner, for Q time, dur
ing which they repp aplentiful harvest.
while others settle permanently here.
The Pundit who has given me occasion
to write is not one of those. Ue comes
from Marwar, in Rajpootana, and Is
known by the name of Pundit Jaluram
Sharma Magyar, residing ut Kalbatcvic.
His power of reading o thought com.
nitted to paper without having seen or
even touched this pap,r makes him
unique among thought readers
a gentleman having told the writer
that the Pundit had exactly made out
what he had written on bit of paper
which was laid on the table, crumpled
apd rolled up, and which the Pundit
did not even so much us touch, an inter-
view was arranged with the Pundit,
who undertook to exhibit his power
before circle of friends There were
about ten gentlemen in the ROOM and
the Pundit engaged to read three differ
ent questions put to him by three per-
sons, of whom the writer was one The
question was composed in the Guzcrati
language, but transliterated into
Devanagri characters, us the Pundit
knows these better than any other
characters 1t may be here stated that
any language in the world can be
used, provided only it is translitcrated
mot tran3lated) into the Devanagri
characters The questions were written
In IN adjoining room, and there was no
chance whatever of them having been
seen by the Pundit, who was during
the time engaged in conversation with
the other gentlemen. The paper was
folded and crumplcd and put OH a small
table in the middle of the company,
along with the questions of the two
other gentlemen, who used tho same
precautions as the writer. The ques.
TONERS were then asked to select the
uduneo SA SolilS uOWSt VI AiuAU, uhu w
point out with their fingers one of the
numbers written on bit Of paper. The
somewhat queer condition imposed on
US was that we should take the name OF
God while pointing out the number.
This done, the Pundit and companion
whom he had brought with him en-
gagged themselves deeply in making
some calculations.
ut must be remarked that through
out the entire proceedings the three
bits of paper lay within sight of every
one on the table, unseen, untouched,
untampered with by either Pundit OF
his companion. After few minutes
the Pundit handed over to the com
pany strip of paper on which some
thing was written in Devanagri, and
taking up one of the rolled-up questions
from the table, asked us to compare
the two The strip written by the
Pundit was the exact copy OF the orig.
inal question! So with the second, and
so also with the third, which was re-
produced verbatim ct literatim even t.:
the very note of interrogation, which
was put in the original of this question
alone. The whole occupied hardly hal
on hour. and everything passed of
without any hitch whatever. Nor were
there any suspicious proceedin, IS on th'
part OF the Pundit or his companion
Tho conclusion is clear. Either sh,