EASTERN HINDOOSTAN. 129 



in the mod filthy manner, and figures of males and females 

 are reprefented in every variety of indecency. The fame fpe- 

 cies of Pagoda, the fame difgufting fculpture, and the fame re- 

 verence is paid to Gopalfama in places innumerable along this 

 coafl ; he is often carried in procefiion followed by troops of 

 virgins and married women, who worlliip and kifs the infignia 

 of the god to deprecate rterility. Thefe are comparatively bar- 

 barians. What lliall we fay to the Roman matrons, who per- 

 formed the felf-fame ceremonies, or what fliall we fay to the 

 proftitution of the fine arts, which could exhauil: their fkill in 

 the grofleft reprefentations of the objects of worfhip belonging 

 to the filthy deity. 



The great Chilka lake bounds the Circars on the north ; it Chilka Lajce. 

 feems formed like that of Pullicate, by an overwhelming of the 

 fea, and like that it has its ifles. It affords a moft agreeable 

 profpeil, diverfified with woods, illands, and mountains, and 

 fmall veffels perpetually in motion : it is the divifion between 

 the Circars and the province of Cattack, the moft fouthern in 

 the kingdom of Orixa. Here begins the wildeft part of the 

 vaft foreits which fpread along the back of the Circar moun- 

 tains, and the unknown parts of Berar. 



Now commences the once great kingdom of Orixa, the feat Kingbom of 

 of the Gangaridce Calinga, difcovered in the time of Pliny. In 

 lib. vi. c. 1-9, he fays it was alfo called Parthalis, and the king 

 was a moft potent monarch ; he could bring into the field fe- 

 venty thoufand foot, a thoufand horfe, and five hundred ele- 

 phants ; his numerous fubjects followed different occupations ; 

 fome cultivated the ground, others were manufacturers, and 



Vol. II. S others 



