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8 EASTERN' HINDOOSTAN. 



luitable artift. The following defcription from the Jycen muft 

 at prefent content us : " Near to Jugernaut is the temple of the 

 " Sun, in the erecting of which was expended the whole reve- 

 " u.\\Q of Orija for twelve years. No one can behold this im- 

 " menfe edifice without being flruck with amazement. The 

 " wall which furrounds the whole is one hundred and fifty 

 " cubits high, and nineteen cubits thick. There are three en- 

 " trances to it ; at the eaftern gate are two very fine figures of 

 " elephants, each with a man upon his trunk. To the weft 

 " are two furprifing figures of horfemen, completely armed, 

 " and over the northern gate are carved two tygers, who hav- 

 " ing killed two elephants, are fitting upon them. In the front 

 " of the gate is a pillar of black ftone, of an o6lagonal form, 

 " fifty cubits high : there are nine flight of fi:eps, after afcend- 

 " ing which yon come to an extenfive enclofure, where you 

 *' difcover a large dome, conftru6ted of ftone, upon which are 

 « carved the fun and the ftars, and round them is a border, 

 ** where are reprefented a variety of human figures exprefling 

 " the different paflions of the mind, fome kneeling, others 

 " proftrated with their faces on the earth, together with min- 

 " ftrels, and a number of ftrange and wonderful animals, fuch 

 " as never exifted but in imagination : This is faid to be a 

 " work of feven hundred and thirty years antiquity. Rajah 

 " Nurfing Deo finifhed this building, thereby ereiling for him- 

 *' felf a lafting monument of fame. There are twenty-eight 

 " other temples belonging to this Pagoda^ fix before the nor- 

 " them gate, and twenty-two without the enclofure, and they 

 ** are all reported to have done miracles.'' 



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