14 EASTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



menfe, which the affailants divided entirely among thcmfelves. 

 After that, we made a point of honor to reftore the monarch 

 to his throne ; the capital had by that time recovered in. part its 

 former profperity : the expedition highly anfwered the intent : 

 we eafed the inhabitants of their new-acquired riches, and re- 

 turned perfedly fatisfied with our acquiHtions. 



This city was, before the eruption of ^yder Ali^ fuppofed to 

 contain a hundred thoufand inhabitants. Their religion is 

 Hindoo: they pofiefs a moft magnificent pagoda, of a pyramidal 

 form ; and the fummit finifliing with a globe, the bafe of which 

 is hid in foliage : the ftones which compofe this building are 

 large and rvule. Mr. Hodges, in tab. xxiii. gives a view of it ; 

 Captain Trapaud, another : The latter in an ornamented ftate, 

 the fides of the pyramid being covered with globular ftones 

 placed in rows. Thefe pyramids, and thofe at Deogur, hereafter 

 to be mentioned, have a chamber in the centre without any 

 light but what is given by a lamp. 



Mr. T'rapaud in the fame plate, gives a figure of the famous 

 bull which is cut out of one block of granite, weighs a hun- 

 dred tons, and was brought from a place a hundred miles dif- 

 tant : the height to the top of the head is thirteen feet : the 

 length from the cheft to the rump, fixteen : girth round the 

 neck and cheft, twenty-fix ^'^ This may have been the First 

 Bull of Zoroajler. I fliall not enter into the legend, a tale 

 fo nonfenfical as to weary any, except he is poflefiTed of the 

 phrenetic fancy of the pious Hindoo. 

 Delta OF THE THE whole of the kingdom is included within \^\q Delta of 



Cavery. 



* Mr, Knight's Eflays, &c, pt 57. tab, xvii. 



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