A Voyage to China: Including a Visit to the Bombay Presidency; the Mahratta Country; the Cave Temples of Western India, Singapore, the Straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the Cape of Good Hope, Volume 1W. Shoberl, 1850 - Asia |
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Page 183 - ... twenty feet in length, and twelve in breadth ; at the upper end of which, as you turn to the right, presents itself a colonnade covered at top, of ten or twelve feet deep, and in length answering to the breadth of the area : this joins to an apartment of the most regular architecture, an oblong square, with a door in perfect symmetry; and the whole executed in quite a contrary taste and manner from any of the oldest or best Gentoo buildings anywhere extant.
Page 25 - Multum in parvo ! pro bono publico ! Entertainment for man or beast, all of a row ; Lekker kost, as much as you please ; Excellent beds, without any fleas. Nos patriam fugimus ! now we are here, Vivamus ! let us live by selling beer. On donne a boire et a manger ici ; Come in and try it, whoever you be.
Page 182 - But these representations have no reference or connection, either to any known history, or the mythology of the Gentoos. They had continued in a tolerable state of preservation and wholeness, considering the remoteness of their antiquity, until the arrival of the Portuguese, who made themselves masters of the place, and in the blind fury of their bigotry, not suffering any idols but their own, they must have been at even some pains to maim and deface them, as they now remain, considering the hardness...
Page 261 - ... columns, that on the rt. surmounted by 4 lions couchant. Its pedestal is cut into panels and supports an image of Buddha, whose head is canopied by five heads of the hooded snake. The left column has three dwarf figures on the top, which once, perhaps, supported a wheel. The whole space at the...
Page 183 - Gentoo buildings anywhere extant. I took particular notice of some paintings round the cornices, not for anything curious in the design, but for the beauty and freshness of the colouring, which must have lasted some thousands of years, on supposing it, as there is all reason to suppose it, contemporary with the building itself.
Page 182 - ... been at some pains to maim and deface them as they now remain, considering the hardness of the stone. It is said they even brought field-pieces to the demolition of images which so greatly deserved to be spared for the unequalled curiosity of them. Of this, Queen Catherine of Portugal was, it seems, so sensible, that she could not conceive that any traveller would return from that side of India without visiting the wonders of this cavern ; of which, too, the sight appeared to me to exceed all...
Page 182 - India without visiting the wonders of this cavern; of which, too, the sight appeared to me to exceed all the descriptions I had heard of them. About two-thirds of the way up this temple, on each side, and fronting each other, are two doors or outlets, into smaller grots or excavations, and freely open to the air. Near and about the door-way, on the right hand, are several mutilated images, single and in groups.
Page 179 - ... being naturally of the colour of that beast. It stands on a platform of stones of the same colour. On the back of this elephant was placed standing, another young one, appearing to have been all of the same stone, but has been "long broken down.
Page 179 - It can at most be but about three miles in compass, and consists of almost all hill ; at the foot of which as you land, you see, just above the shore, on your right, an elephant, coarsely cut out in stone, of the natural bigness, and at some little distance not impossible to be taken for -a real elephant, from the stone being naturally of the colour of that beast. It stands on a platform of stones of the same colour. On the back of this elephant was placed standing, another young one, appearing to...
Page 261 - Bird, and man}' relics and inscriptions on copper were found. This is the first stage of ascent to the caves, which consist of six stories, on the ledges of the mountains, connected with each other by footsteps cut in the rock. The ascent is gradual until within a few hundred yards of the southernmost, when the path becomes steep and rugged, and so closely shaded with shrubs and lofty trees as to conceal every appearance of the...