A comparative view of antient monuments of India, particularly those in the island of Salset near Bombay / as described by different writers. [Anon].

  • Gough, Richard, 1735-1809
Date:
1785
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Credit: A comparative view of antient monuments of India, particularly those in the island of Salset near Bombay / as described by different writers. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    different fubjefls themfelves in different places of India—in- hopes that ftill more accurate accounts if poffible may be ob- tained, and ftill further helps for illuftrating the intricate My- thology of the Eaft, or at leaf!; for afcertaining whether it be, as Ibme modern writers chufe to*think-, worth illuftrating; How little do we know of the magnificent pagoda of Chillembrum [£], except by the mention of it in our late ravages of the country! The Eaft India company have a painting of that of Chirin* gaham [c] in their committee room ; and a good drawing of it by an officer in their fervice was exhibited in Pall-Mall 1768; But the Eaft India company do not engrave antient monu- ments [t/J, and the drawing was the property and work of a pri- vate gentleman.. The late Smart Lethieullier, Efq. had u drawings of the great pagoda near Bombay with MS. defcriptions of it by him- felf,” which at the fale of his library at Mr. Baker’s in February 17761 were purchafed for feven pounds ten ffiillings for the royal cabinet. A report of a Committee for examining the Minute Books of the Society of Antiquaries 1762,, in order to feledt from thence materials for publication, enumerates this among other proper fubjefts. The drawings were probably copied from minutes and (ketches made by or for Governor, Boon, [£] Count Caylus calls it Chilambaram». [r] Plans of the pagoda of Great and Little Chlrengam, or as Mr. Orrne (I. 182) calls it, Seringham, pilafters of that of Chltambaram: Coil Covaron a gate of another temple, may be feen with thirty plates of a variety of Indian Deities and ceremonies, in a French book little known I believe in England, which has for title only a medal of France, Fdicitas publico. 1729, and under it La France Toujours FloriJJantc 1729. Qu. if the pagoda or a town near it of the fame name was taken by the French between Porto Nero and Devi Cotah? [^] We may hope however ere long to fee fome engraved from drawings made on the fpot by Mr. Flodges, who has done fo much credit to our late dil- coveries in another quarter of the globe. which