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Travels into ?k I N D I E S. Part III. 
For above two 
Leagues there 
is nothing to 
be feen but 
Pagods. 
. Leaving this place , I went into feveral other Temples of different 
ftrudure, built alfo in the Rock, and full of Figures, Pilalters, and Pillars : 
I faw three Temples, one ovenranother , which have but one Front all 
three j but it is divided into th/tc Stories, fupported with as many rows of 
Pillars, and in every Story, there is a great door for the Temple \ the 
Stair-cafes are cut out of the Rock. I faw but one Temple that was Arched, 
and therein I found a Room, whereof the chief Ornament is a fquare Well, 
cut in the Rock, and full of Spring- water, that rifes within two or three 
foot of the brim of the Well. T here are vaft numbers of Pagods alla- 
long the Rock, and there is nothing elfe to be feen for above two Leagues : 
They arc all Dedicated to fome Heathen Saints, and the Statue of the falfe 
Saint, (to which every one of them is Dedicated,)fl:ands upon a Bafis at the 
farther end of the Pagod. 
In thefe Pagods 1 faw feveral Santa's or Sogues without Cloaths, except 
on the parts of the Body which ought to be hid : They were all co- 
vered with Afhcs, and I was told that they let their Hair grow as long 
as it could. If I could have ftayed longer in thofe quarters, 1 fhould have 
feen the reft of the Pagods, and ufed fo much diligence, as to have found 
but fome body, that might have exadly informed me of every thing ^ but 
it behoved me to reft fatished as to that, with the information I had from 
the Gentiles of Aurangeabad^ who upon my return told me, that the con- 
ftant Tradition was, that all thele Pagods, great and fmall, with their 
Works and Ornaments, were made by Giants, but that in what time it 
was not known. 
However it be, if one confider that number of fpacious Temples, full 
of Pillars and Pilafters, and fo many thoufands of Figures , all cut out of 
a natural Rock, it may be truly faid, that they are Works furpaffing hu- 
mane force ^ and that at Icaft, (in the Age wherein they have been made,) 
the Men have not been altogether Barbarous, though the Architedure and 
Sculpture be not fo delicate as with us. I fpent only two hours in feeing 
what now I have defcribed, and it may eafily be judgcd,that I needed feveral 
days to have examined all the rarities of that place-, but feeing I wanted 
time, and that it behoved me to make hafte, if I intended to find my com- 
Thetime when 
thefe Pagods 
were made 
Multitudes of 
Figures. 
Rougequi. 
Sultan^ourit, 
pany ftill at Aurangeabad, I broke off my curiofity, and I muft confefs it was 
with regret : I therefore got up into my Waggon again, which I found at 
a Village called Rougequi^ from whence I went to Sultanfoura^ a little Town, 
the Mofques and Houfes whereof are built of a blackifh Free-ftone, and the 
Streets paved with the fame. Not far from thence I found that fo difficult 
defcenr, which I mentioned -, and at length, after three hours march from 
the time we left Elora, we refted an hour under Trees, near the Walls of 
Doltabad, which I confidered as much as I could, 
C H A P. XLV. 
Of the Vrovince of Doltabad and of the 
Teats of Agility of Body. 
Bohehad, 
Trade tranf- 
ported frorn 
Doltabad to 
Aurmgidhad. 
THis Town was the Capital of Bdagate^ before it was conquered by the 
Moguls : It belonged then to DecaTf, and was a place of great Trade -, 
but at prefent the Trade is at Aurangeabad, whither King Auran-Zeb ufed 
his utmoft endeavours to tranfport it, when he was Governour thereof. 
The Town is indifferently big, it reaches from Eaft to V/eft, and is much 
longer than broad ; it is Walled round with Free-ftone , and has Battle- 
ments and Towers mounted with Cannon. But though the Walls and 
Towers' 
