Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 11/Yapahoo - Part 1
Page:Once a Week Jun to Dec 1864.pdf/240 Page:Once a Week Jun to Dec 1864.pdf/241 Page:Once a Week Jun to Dec 1864.pdf/242 ruined cities of Coylon. As, however, I do not think they are so well known in England, I give a detailed drawing of this curious myth. It is also of one block of stone, and measures five feet by four.
This creature is called in Tamil, Yanci-Yali, which has the same signification, viz., "Elephant-Lion," and is one of the vehicles of Durga, a form of the goddess Parvati, who, in consequence, is called "Yali Yurthi," she who rides on a Yali.
These completed the balustrade, and we now come to the terrace I have mentioned. Its height above the lion pedestal may be some fifty or sixty feet.