'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎92] (411/1024)

Travels in India.
While we flay’d at B & omrt , we went to fee feveral Pagods, of which th
Country is full ^ there being more than in any other part of India • f or U1]1 f e
it be the Governours of Towns; and fome of their Domefticks, all the reft of
the Inhabitants are Idolaters. The Paged belonging to the Town of
is a very large one, but not clos’d with Walls ; it confifts of fifty-two Vilhr
twenty foot high, that uphold a flat roof of Free-flone; they are adorn’d with
feveral embofs d Figures of ugly Devils, and feveral forts of Creatures. Some
of thofe Devils are made with four Horns* others with many Legs and many
Tails, others lolling out their Tongues, and others in feveral other ridiculous
pollutes. The fame Figures are cut in the Stone of the Roof, and between
the Pillars Hand the Statues of their Gods upon Pedeftals. The Pagod is built
in the midlt of a Court, of a greater length than breadth, encompafs’d with
Walls, which are adorn’d within and without, with the fame Figures as the
Pagod ; and a Gallery upheld by lixty-lhc Pillars, runs round the Wall, after
the manner of a Cloy fief. You enter into this Court through a wide Portal
upon which are two Niches, one above another, the firll upheld by twelve’
the other by eight Pillars. At the bottom of the .Pillars of the Pagod, are
certain old Indian Characters, of which the Priells ofthdfe Idolaters themfelves
can hardly tell the meaning.
We went £o fee another Pagod, built Upon a Hilly to which there is an af-
cent of a hundred and ninety-three Heps, every one a foot high. The Pagod
is four-fquare, with a Cupola at the top; and has the fame embofs’d Figures,
as the Pagod of Bez,oHan^ round about the Walls. In the middle, there is an
Idol fitting crofs-leg’d, after the manner of the Country; and in that fitting
pollute it is about four foot high; Upon the Head it has a Triple Crown, from
which four Horns extend themfelves; and it has the face of a man, turn’d to
ward the Eall. The Pilgrims that come out of devotion to thefe Pagods, when
they enter, clafp their hands together, and rear them up to their foreheads;
then they advance toward the Idol, tolling their two hands fo clafpt together,
and crying out feveral times Ram, Ram^ that is to fay, God, God. When they
come near, they ring a little Bell that hangs upon the Idol it felf, after they
have befmear’d the Face, and feveral parts of the Body, with feveral forts of
Painting. Some there are that bring along with them ViolsofOil, with which
they anoint the Idol; and befides, they make an Offering to it of Sugar, Oil,
and other things proper to be eaten; the richer fort alfo adding pieces of Sil
ver. There are fixty Priells that belong to the Idol, and maintain themfelves,
their Wives and Children upon the Offerings brought to the Idol. But to the
end the Pilgrims may believe the Idol takes them, the Priells let them lye
two days, and the third day in the evening they take them away. When any
Pilgrim goes to a Pagod, to be cur’d of any dillemper, he brings the Figure
of the Member affeCted made either in Gold, Silver, or Copper, according to
his quality, which he offers to his god ; and then falls a finging, as all the reft
do, after they have offer’d. Before the Gate of the Pagod, there is a flat
Ro&f, upheld by fixteen Pillars, and right againll it,is another upheld by eight;
which ferves for the Prielts Kitchin. On the South-fide there is a large Plat
form cut in the Mountain, where there is a pleafing lhade of many fair Trees,
and feveral Wells digg’d in the ground. Pilgrims come far and near to this
Pagod ; and if they be poor, the Priells relive them with what they receive
from the rich, that come there out of devotion. The great Feafl of this Pa
god is in the month ot Ottober, at which time there is a great concourfe of
people from all parts. While we were there, there was a Woman that had
not llirr’d out of the Pagod for three days together; and her prayer to the
Idol was, fince Ihe had loll her Husband, to know what fhe Ihould do to bring
up her Children. Thereupon asking one of the Priells, wherefore Ihe had no
anfwer, or whether Ihe was to have any anfwer or no; he told me, that ihe
mull wait the pleafure of their God, and that then he would give her an '
fwer to what Ihe expedted. Upon this I millrulted fome cheat, and to dilco-
ver it,I refolv’d to go into the Pagod when all the Prielts wereabfent at Dinner,
there being only one that llood'at the Gate, whom Ifeiit to fetch
water at a Fountain two or three Musket-lhot from the place. During c a