33(> EASTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



iiiby *. The image has alfo a mouth and nofe painted with ver- 

 miUon. None, except Pariars, are denied admittance to the pre- 

 tence of the deitv. The Ayeen Akberry, p. i8, gives a moft fuper- 

 ilitious account of the difcovery of this image; the author fpeaks 

 of more images than one : He fays, " the Brahmins wafli the 

 <' images of Jagrenaut fix times every day, and drefs them 

 " every time in frefli clothes ; as foon as they are dreffed fifty- 

 " fix Brahmins attend them, and prefent them with various 

 " kinds of food : the quantity of vicTtuals offered to thefe idols 

 *< is fo very great as to feed twenty thoufand perfons ?" This 

 image is never removed out of the temple, but its effigies is 

 often carried in proceffion in a mofl enormous coach four {lo- 

 ries high, with fixteen wheels, and capable of containing two 

 hundred perfons : it is drawn by a cable of great length ; zea- 

 lous votaries will fling themfelves before the wheels, to gain a 

 death that is to enfure a happy immortality. Hamilton vifited 

 this holy temple, but was not admitted into the interior ; the 

 report of that part he had from a Hijzdoo fervant whom he fent 

 in, and who gave him his remarks. There are no windows, 

 but it is lighted by a hundred lamps. 

 Cells for Ne ar the Pagoda are feveral cells or convents, the lodgings of 



B&AHMINS. 



the Brahmins ; there are about five hundred ; part of whom are 

 perpetually employed in the praifing of the deity, attended with 

 the mufic of tabors and cymbals, while another part is bufied 

 in drefling quantities of rice for the ufe of the numerous poor, 

 but a portion is always offered firft to "Jagrenaut ; much alfo is 



* Antequil du Perron. 



fold 



