"رحلات السيد بيترو ديلا فالي، وهو نبيل روماني، إلى الهند الشرقية وصحراء الجزيرة العربية. وفيها يصف بدقة البلدان المختلفة، وكذلك العادات، الأعراف، التجارة، الطقوس الدينية والمدنية، لهؤلاء الأمراء وتلك الأمم الشرقية: في رسائل وديّة إلى صديقه السيد ماريو سكيبانو. وتم إضافة سرد عن رحلة السير توماس رو إلى جزر الهند الشرقية" [‎٢‎٢‎٦] (٥٠٨/٢٤٧)

the travels of Peter Delia Valle,
nsr) the tayle^i the (aid Nandi ^ after which they put off their
Pantofles,and fo enter the Tennple bare-foot to pray ami wodfeip
after their manner > of which I have eUe-wherefpokeo. Some
go round about the Tennple before they enter 5 beginning from
the right fide, and coming about to the left, as I faid beferethey
did alfo at Canara in their Proceflions and Ceremonies. Ojiiers
offer Fruits and other things to the Idols, or elfe ftrew grasosof
Rice before them in Oblation: The like they do to the Statae
of the Ox Nandi, andalfoto a Sprig of Bajtl, planted tfeeie
upon a fquare Pedeftal of earth, on one fide of the little Chap-
pel of Nandi. There (land alfo upon the Lake, and other-where
about the Temple, many other little Chappels indos'd with
walls, having feveral Idols in them. In one behind theTerople
ftands the Idol of the Scimione Haniment , in his ufual and ridi
culous Figure of an Ape, and fitting like a Man 5 and isKiee^
'tisftrange that thefe wretched people are not aftiam 'dto^oi-
(hip fuch things. This Haniment was one of thofe or
Apes which helped Rama to recover his Wife, for whk£.
they Imerited Divine Honours 5 and therefore 'twas reaibo fee
ftiouid here have a place near the Temple of wlaidi re-
fembles the fubjoyned Plat-form.