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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    [ 3* ] is in the fame attitude. They are in a, ruinous ftate by time® On each fide is a grotto fourteen palms fquare, with a little wall two palms high within. i After mounting ten fteps more to the North, you find a grotto in which is another fmaller. On the right is another including a fmaller, wherein is a little wall. The large one is twenty palms long and ten wide, and the leffer ten fquare, and all have their little ci(terns. Further on to the right is another of the fame dimenfions, with two pillars in front, two little grottoes, and three citterns, one on the right, the others on the left. Fur- ther on is another contiguous to the laft,. and including a fmatt one with the ciftertr of the fame dimenfions as the preceding. Thefe places may have been the habitations of the priefts of the pagoda* who led here an auftere life of penance as a pagan The- bais. After defcending fifteen fteps hewn in the rock, you come to an open place forty paces fquare, at the end of which is a fmall pagoda entered by three doors, between which are two^ fquare pil alters. On the left are four ftatues, two fitting and two fmaller in the middle (landing. To the right is another open grotto and another pagoda (with a ciftern before it) into which you enter by a door ten palms high and fix wide, after paffing firft through a chamber forty palms fquare, having on the right a little dark room twelve palms fquare, which makes the pa- goda fbmewhat dark. In the middle is a round cupola cut out of the fame rock fifteen palms high, which is the height of the pagoda. Defcending, fifty fteps more you come to a level open place hewn in the rock, which here is not very hard, and then to eight odtagon pilafters twelve palms high, which leave nine fpaces to afcend by five fteps into a vault. There on the left is a great idol feated with its head bare, and two other- great ftatues
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