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SCENES IN INDIA. 
Trimal Naig has himself preserved the record of this 
event, as the figure representing his favourite wife, 
and standing nearest on the pillar to his own ef- 
figy., has a large gash below the hip on the left side. 
Upon this occasion, when his rage had subsided, he 
did not suffer the hint given by his royal consort to 
he lost, but increased the magnificence of the choultry 
by considerably adding to the richness of its decora- 
tions. 
Upon the pillars beyond that ornamented with his 
own image, and on the columns immediately opposite, 
are other statues, representing his numerous lineage, 
covered with different groupings, expressive of those 
events which were' considered worthy of commemora- 
tion in the respective reigns of his ancestors.. Upon 
the ceiling the zodiacal signs stand out in bold relief ; 
and on the ceiling of the palace it is remarkable that 
there are several single figures, apparently of angels, 
from which circumstance it has been surmised that the 
famous Jesuit, Robertus de Nobilibus, was consulted 
upon the erection of that celebrated structure. He 
was a man so eminently skilled in Sanscrit literature, 
that he translated into this language a work of his 
own upon the divine unity, in order to confute the 
doctrines of polytheism, or rather of pantheism, main- 
tained with so much subtlety by the Sanscrit writers. 
In different parts of Trimal Naig’s choultry there 
are groups of mythological figures cut in bas-relief, 
which refer to circumstances by no means obvious to 
the general observer ; but there is one small group of 
two, separate from all the rest, which tells a lament- 
able story, recording in imperishable granite the basest 
