450 REMARKS ON SOME^AJTTl^U ITILS ON THE 



phant of brafs, with a driver of the fame metal, forms 

 the ornament of a lampftand; the Hght of which was 

 extinguilhed; nor was any other light burning in this 

 temple. 



Both the above Veekars Hand on an eminence, fur- 

 rounded by cocoa-nut and other trees, and by a low 

 wall, which likewife enclofes a third building to the 

 north of the others, called Daghope, with the addition 

 tvabunfee. This building is a folid mafs of earth and 

 brick-work, of aconfiderable height, perhaps (ixty feet, 

 and fliaped fomewhat like a dome with a cupola above. 

 This monumental temple is faid to contain twenty ima- 

 ges of BooDH buried below it. The infide is a mound 

 of earth j theoutfide a covering of no great thicknefs of 

 brick, which has been damaged and partly deftroyed by 

 the rain. At the foot of the eminence is the houle of 

 the priefts, five in number, who have been appointed to 

 officiate at the ceremonies performed at this place dai- 

 ly at noon, and annually^at the principal feflival in By^ 

 faak; when great numbers of pilgrims are laid to alTem- 

 ble here. The priefts are called Gmni, and if learned 

 men, Taranajhi. Rakhita Booi>dha, and Ghose 

 BooDDHA, who attended me, were neither of them 

 Brahmins, nor, as far as I can underftand, are there any 

 Brahmins on the ifland*. They were both as civil and 

 attentive to me as men could be, and after prefenting 

 me with cocoa-nut and plantains, would not allow me 

 to pay for them, or to give them a prefent, although 

 they had permitted me, without objedlion, to make a 

 pecuniary offering to their god, 



TEMPLE AT OOGULBODDA, 

 March loth. — Vifited Oogulbodda Veehar, two Gofs 

 call of Caliture. The temple is a tile-roof building, 



* There probably are, however, at Candia, where there are Hindu 

 temples: the prefent king, who came from Tincvellj in the Camatkk, 

 being of the Hindu religion; whilll the bulk of his fubjefts are worihip- 

 persof BooDH. 



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