'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.' [‎177] (506/1024)

Book III. Travels in I n d i
Gn ibe other fide of the Street where the Colledg is built,there fends
Pagod, call d Xichourdas, from the name of the Idol,which is within upon the Al
tar: and fomewhat lower upon another fmall Altar Hands another Idol which rhev
C2ll,GoKpaidas, the Brother of Rkhoardas. You lee nothing but the fare of sfl
thefe Idols, which is either of wood or jet; unlefs it be the Idol of Morh-R a „
winch Hands in the great Pagod Hark naked. As for the Idol which
Hands in the Ra;a s Pagod,it has two Diamonds inflead of eyes, which the Prinre
caus’d to be fet there, with a Coller of Pearl, and Canopy. over his brad fun''
ported with four Silver-Pillars. ms neaci, mp-
Some eight days journey from Bmarous bending Northward you enter into
a Mountainous Countrey; but which fometimes opns it felf inWvery laree
plains, fometimes three or four leagues in length. They are very ferril in Torn
Rice Wheat, and Pulfe But that which is the plague aL ruInPof thep oPleof
that Countrey, is the vaH number of Elephants that breed there,and devour thek
HarveH. If a Caravan pafs through any part of that Countrey where there are
no Inns in regard the people are forc’d to lye in the op’n Fields,they have much
ado to defend themfelves from the Elephants that will come to take away their
provilions. To skare them, the people make great fires, Ihoot off their Muf-
kcts,hooping and hollowing ever and anon. In this place there is another Pasod
well-built, and very ancient,adorn d with many figures both within and without
which are only the reprefentations of Maids and Women i fothatMen arefeldom
known to repair thither for devotion’s-fake ; and therefore it is call’d the Wo
mens Pagod. There is an Altar in the middle,as in other Pagods ■ and noon th,-
Altar an Idol of mafly Gold,four foot high,reprefentinga Maid Handing upright
which they call Ram-Manon. At her ri ght-hand Hands a Child of mafly silver ’
about two foot high; and they fay that the Maid liv’d a very holy life that that
Child was brought to her by the Bramins to he inArufted in her beliefand in the
knowledg of well-living.- but that after two or three years that the Child had liv’d
with her, the Infant grew fo knowing and ready witted,that all the Raja King 's of the
Countrey long d for her company •, fo that being Holl’n from her one night Ihe
was never feen afterwards. Upon the left-hand of this Idol, Hands another Idol
lepiefentmg an old Man ; who, as they fay, was the fervant of Ram-Marim
^ the ™ nt; f° r which reafon the Bramins do very much reverence this Idol
J hey never come but ence a year in devotion,but they muH be there upon a pre-
hxd day winch is the firH of November, though they never op’n the Pagod till
.nehflloftlmM° on , During thofe fifteen days, the Pilgrims, as well Men
s Women, faH from time to time, and walh themfelves three times a-day not
leaving a hair in any part of their bodies, which they take off with a certain
CHAP. XIL
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A Continuation of the defer ipt ion of the principal Pagods of
the Indian Idolaters.
N f c Xt ,w th f P a / ods of Jngremte and Bananas , the moH confiderabh
Bekv iff “ ^X !ra ' ab ° ut ei ghteen leagues from slgra, upon the way tc
S til f To fChe r ft r fum P tuous Educes in all India, and the place tc
very few J te f n u ra , b f r , of Pll S rlI ? s was wont to refort: But now there are
had^for thar 1 ^ >ne Idolaters having fenfibly loH the reverence which they
rhon ’a .^ a § 0c ^7 ^ nc e the River of Cemena that formerly ran by that Pagod
tbe to i ltS COl ! rfe r’ abo y e f half a lea S ue from it. For it requires fo much
JUMiv time PaS e d ,’ afcer they have wafll ’ d in the River, that they were
» bom.flf fi d again , b f ore could reach it- Though this Pagod Hand in
buUdimr h ^° U m i a r ^ 1 ^ c:over lt: fi ve °r fix leagues before you come at it the
Budding being very lofty and magnificent. The Stones are of a red cofour
* & a wlikt