BCftutUK, IB7S ARCESJOLOOlCALtfC 27J tn bave been the builder. J u «t oppo fort there is amasjid, and near it a haJD liluck marble tomb, amw know wbosc; tho maejid tin^tt temple, Appears (a have boon adapted front one, cool ing Hindu pillars with Bum nr and graven with A a „j a | tHI g tho will At the cud there tn n row of Fornian- lew 1 arohe* and & reading pulpit, with pttbn once manifestly Hindu. Not far from
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mon/ap-im consisting- of a domed canopy tap- ported by nk-mlir olfrgunf jAded pillars: UiIr lina ha- ...d, juuj placed in it a Pir'* tomb of vmv nobd jr* supported at tho four corncre by i wtih the top worked couch-fashion. Twice or thrice by tho long dreary road n inuuldering brick Bib marls tin '.place of ©no of tho stone fellows who tanrch ittisud. I il hiTl seen in the plate rising bayoud the boaUor-ridgo, from which » mile diad : ■■? i v a y a Male, ».*. Siva'a Hfll, and b crowned with a w' remarkably high ok wall to which a Gno broad steep flight of K)U1* atop* tands op from tin? bottom, las- cendnd thosa one hot morning, and found ■up very exhausting. Ou reaching tho tor ■ bio did not like the temple oven to bo uppruaehed, ho I made uo attempt to cater, but would not be stayed from sitting down m tho aliadow of the high wall, which wot pierced by I i trance that appeared to ruaku a sharp lorn at a abort distance within, like the entrance to a fort. All these southern provinces are dotted over with isolated hill* oad rock* oj ,g sizes, almost invariably sunuiui riled by temples appi> by lozur flights of steps. The temple on Mount irontitn was* eo approached, mid very similar indeed Blunt have iffh places' so ofl mentioned in I rieal books of II . i.alway.. r probation, mi ooo and abomina- tion* Into which Israel was continnnlly laps- ing.* It waa on 'linages' and ' ; rod thing' that i Israel (Jc*hua viL), fi ■ pre* (ay* which E*ekioUaw at the very • altar, were let up: these were tho deadliest offences, which tho I«uw and the Pro- phelii wore never weary or deaottn: wurn the objeeti and expressions r, . property itndurstood and translat&d, it i* Cl?r . lint cool i j mw BOOH them, ho would at onoa have recognised in Ids own torn pk>, bnt, there i* reason to believe, far more g and worshipped with rf| sects like Pic MuUArijas. or ai orgis* on particular occasions in certain temple* of Southern India. ing this locality, r reuturo to fa apanage in Dr.BnrneQ'i | at dy pub- bahnd ndniirablo work, : .S>utf-
t papj 78, refbrriog to
thopencily ofbiatorion] Inscription*, he observed: "Tlin gr t atitm woi i ,„j Ch&la ictctl by C h 6 J a. prmvv* in tho elomntfa em] iwulfth cen- turies, but f haro never been ublo to h iscripfcions rnfarringtothcmj and Major Ifoad, R.E., who has visited ovary part of tbum, tells me be has never Been anything of tho land." -" I a a tt r i, however, insniudiatelv opposite K i2 1 i t a 1 e, on the north bank of the ri il an extraordinarily inaaaivo granite bi boili in rhu dnyi of the rijaa, irrigation channel that ikirts tho river, and on one aide of il an inscription is cat, whir eonjuj - ti the local pan Ai< bffttd thu*, thongb not expert enough to vouch far its taees : — ■ ' Tbo channel . Ii ead was cut by L o t. h a k k 6 n a n during his reign, as a monument to the memory ofKarikal Cho- ah an -tho flowing treaauro of Manmudi- Ii z li I ii - p v t f. a i -tho kej of &o pro«peron» Ntring to the throo kings of the 1 1" Some tirelijBotogi*L near tho spot may perhapn corre«.'t a i this, or send a copy to 11 r. Kuniell j mine has been losL Though iu an arrnihtira-m, tbere is a tomple close to the bridge to uu indigimous go aofl, Hie Brahman* disown mtd would feit tob« m if the plar<* d, pre-Bribuutuiual tinuai. Thr d an uutiipiityof 1300 years to thu bridge and in- W ! Tho PAndvo Q]u>a and Chera king- doma are probably referred to in the tattor. " £ Ohnn, nemt I ; 1 Kinj>, air. 3$. $r«. tuo, the eorkiu voooast of tho ratting vt Saul, [ S«m, x. 5.
