The son of this chief, by name Rai Singh, was, soon after the castle had been completed, killed in an attack upon a town near Chitrakot;[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 Rai 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 Rai 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.