A comparative view of antient monuments of India, particularly those in the island of Salset near Bombay / as described by different writers. [Anon].

  • Richard Gough
Date:
1785
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Credit: A comparative view of antient monuments of India, particularly those in the island of Salset near Bombay / as described by different writers. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] fa front at the entrance on the right (6) is another giant with four arms leaning on a dwarf. (7) is a divan two canes and a half deep, where was then water. At the end (8) is Gones: oppofite him (9) a man handing: at the end (io) fix figures painted on the wall and very frefh: 3 reprefent women, one of whom has a child in her arms. The bafe (plate I. VIII. H.) of the pillars of the excavation B is a cane high, and two-thirds of a cane wide. From the foot of the pedeftal to the capital a cane (b), figures at the corners over the pedeftal, the fliaft (c) fluted: the whole pillar is two canes and a half high as well as the width of the fpace between the pillars. After having carefully examiner! all thp cunofities, of thefe pagodas, I went to pafs the night in the little aldee of the filher- men, which forms a ftreet on the dope of one of the mountains of Elephanta. Next day December 7 at day-break, I went to the foot of the fecond mountain fronting Bombay, in the corner of the ifland where is the elephant that gives Gallipouri the name of Ele- phant a, It is of the natural fize, of black ftone detached from* the ground, and feems to carry its young one on its back.” The next defcription is that by Mr. John Hunter in Archaeo- logia, vol. VII. p. 286—302.-which we forbear to tranfcribe, but proceed to what to us appears the moft accurate of■ all pre- ceding defcriptions, that by Mr. Nieubuhr [hj, which we ihall make no apology for tranflating at large, and copying his- plates, the inipedtion of which will flxew how exactly M. de Perron has defcribed the carvings. [h~[ Voyage de Nieubuhr, Amft, 1780. II. p, 25—35* 4t0* “ 'Several
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