'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.' [‎178] (507/1024)

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which they fetch from a Quarry, neer Agra. They cleave like our Slates far
of them being fifteen foot long, and nine or ten foot broad, yet not’aber
fix fingers thick, efpecially when you cleave them as you would have them fT
ufe .* They alfo make very fair Pillars. The Fortrefs of ^^,the Walls of %' r *
nabat. the King’s Houfe, the two Mofquees^ and feveral Noblemens Houfa IT
all built of this Stone.
The Pagod is built upon a great Platform of an OBogoml Figure, pay’d ^
Free-ftdne j being adorn’d round about with the figures of all forts of crea
tures, efpecially Apes. There is an afeent to it two wayes of fifteen or fateen
Heps a-piece, every Hep being two foot broad, for two perfons to go a-breft
One of the afeents leads up to the great Portal of the Pagod, the other behind
up to the Chancel. The Pagod does not take up above half the Platform the
other half ferv ing for a before it. The Strudure is in the form of a
Crofs, like the reft of the Pagods, in the midft whereof a great Baomo with
two others of each fide fomewhat lefs, advance themfelves above the reft of
the building. The out-fide of the building from top to bottom is adorn’d
with the figures of Rams, Apes and Elephants, and feveral forts of Mon-
fters. From one foot below every one of thefe Dtiomo's to the Roof at
fuch and fuch fpaces, are Windows, fome five, fome fix feet high, and to
every Window, belongs a Balcone, where four perfons may Hand. Every Bah
cone is cover’d with a little Arch, fupported by four Pillars, others by eight
every two touching one another. Round about the Dmm<?s are Niches fill’d
with the figures of Damons. Some with four arms, fome with four legs.
Some with mens heads upon the bodies of Bealls, and long tails that hang
down to their thighes .* There are abundance of Apes ; and indeed it is an
ugly fight to behold fo many deform’d fpeftacles. There is but one great
door to the Pagod, upon each fide whereof there are Pillars and Figures of
Men and Monflers. The hinder-part is clos’d with a clofe Balifter of Stone-
Pillars five or fix inches in Diameter, into which, as into a kind of SaAm
Santtorum^ none but the Bramins are permitted to enter .* but for Money, I got
in, and law’ a fquare Altar fome fifteen or flxten foot from the door co
ver’d with an old Tiffue of Gold and Silver, upon which Hood the great Idol,
which they call Ram^ Ram. You lee nothing but his head, which is of a very
black Marble, with two Rubies inflead of eyes. All the body, from the fhdul-
ders to the feet, is cover’d with a Robe of Purple-Velvet, with fome fmall
embroidery. There are two other Idols of each fide of him two foot high, ap-
parrell d in the fame manner } only their faces are white, which they call Btc*
chor. There I law a Machine fixteen foot Iquare, and between twelve and
fifteen foot high ^ cover’d with painted Calicuts, reprefentingthe fhapesofDe-
vils. This Machine running upon four Wheels, they told me, was a moving
Altar, upon which they earn’d their great God in Proceffion to vifit the other
Gods, as alfo to the River, whither all the people went upon their great Fefti-
val.
The fourth Pagod is that of Tripeti, in the Province of Carnatica,toward- the
Coafl of Coromandel, 2nd Cape Comorin. I law it as I went to Majlipatan. It is a
Pagod to which there belong a great number of little lodgings for the Bramins:
lb that altogether it feems to be a great Town. There are feveral Ponds round
about it; but their fuperflition isfo great, that no Pallenger dare take any water
out of them, but what the Bramin gives him.