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plain excepting a few embodied figures of women, 

 fome fmall ornaments, and on the friezes of the doors, 

 the pannel 3 of which are alfo plated. A ftatue 

 with three legs is placed over each of the three entries ; 

 to fupport this uncommon figure, a poll is carried up, 

 which, at fir ft fight, gives it the appearance of being 

 empaled. On the weft fide of the pagoda inferiptions 

 are engraved very neatly on three fheets of brais 

 plates. Oppoiite to the fouth fide, on a neat bafe- 

 meht and pedeftal ornamented with brazen figures 

 of cows, is a flender pillar about twenty- four or 

 thirty ieet high, entirely compofed of brais.. plates ; 

 it is bent ; and from the joints, which plainly appear 

 in the plaung, it. feems to be laid on a bamboo en- 

 clofed within. The four fides of the pedeital are 

 covered with inferiptions, two in Gentoo or Tellinga, 

 one in Gnndam, and one in Naggerim : the firft lie-* 

 ven lines of the latter in large well defined cha- 

 racters, I copied; live fmallef lines followed, which I 

 could not copy fo exactly, the character being fmall, 

 and the pedeital highly elevated. Some characters 

 are alfo engraved on the fillet and ornamental parts 

 Of the moulding. From hence I was conducted 

 to the fmaller and more ancient temple of Mal- 

 ls car jee, where he is adored in the figure of a 

 rude Hone, which I could juft diftinguifh through 

 the dark, villa of the front building on pillars. Behind 

 this building an immenfe fig tree covers with its fliade 

 the devotees and attendants, who repofe on feats 

 placed round its trunk and carpeted. Among thefe 

 was one Byraggy who had devoted himfelf to a per- 

 petual refidence here ; his fole fubfiftence was the 

 milk of a cow, which I faw him driving before him : 

 an orange coloured rag was tied round his loins and 

 his naked body was beimearcd with afhes. 



Some of the Brahmen s came in the evening, 



with a copy of the inferiptions on tvo of the brais 



plates : they profeifed not to know exactly, the 



meaning 

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