MADRAS JOURNAL 



t> OF 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



No. 30— April 1844. 



L — A Guide to the Sculptures , Excavations, and other remark- 

 able objects at Mamallaipur, generally known to Europeans as 

 " the Seven Pagodas" by the late Lieutenant John Brad- 

 dock, of the Madras Establishment. To which are added 

 some ArchcBological Notes , by theRevermdWjisiiAM Taylor, 

 and a Supplementary account of the remains at Salvan 

 Cuppam, by Walter Elliot Esq. of the Madras Civil 

 Service. — Communicated by the Reverend George William 

 Mahon, a. m., Garrison Chaplain, Fort St. George, 



In the month of June 1840, I accompanied a small party 

 of friends on a visit to the remarkable remains at Mamallaipur. 

 As our excursion, from its necessary brevity, was likely to 

 prove one of amusement rather than of antiquarian research, 

 and the large quartos of the Asiatic Society ^re somewhat 

 cumbrous, we borrowed from our friend Mr. Braddock a little 

 pamphlet published by him some years before, which at once 

 served as a guide to what was worth seeing, and explained to 

 such of us as were but slightly acquainted with Hindu My- 

 thology the subjects and allusions of the various sculptures. 



On our return I expressed to Mr. Braddock a desire that 

 he should undertake a fuller account of the place, and sug- 

 gested that it should combine the useful and entertaining pro- 

 perties of a Guide Book with the more important lucubra- 



