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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 170 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=10mm, Gew.=259gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 170 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=10mm, Gew.=259gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: up a little party for an excursion to these caves. We hired a native sailing boat with a crew of four men, and favoured by wind and tide we reached Sarapuri in about an hour and a half. It is but a small island rising from the shore by a gradual ascent for some little distance, and then very steeply to the summit, terminating in three peaks, which are covered with trees and jungle. The caves are situated on the side of one of these hills, two or three hundred feet above the level of the sea. They are hewn out of the solid rock, the largest resembling in shape a huge square chamber about sixteen feet high, with several rows of carved columns, six in a row, supporting the roof. It is scarcely correct, however, to say they all support the roof, for some of them have been taken away, showing only the base and the place overhead where the pillar has been broken off. The chief altar (if I may so call it) faces the entrance, and here is the great representation of the triple-headed divinity, Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, in one block of stone. The figures have several arms, and a huge serpent, coiled across the front, is depicted in the act of raising itself, and looking into one of the countenances of the trio. One of the faces looks towards the entrance of the cave; the two others are partly turned away on either side. Leading from this main chamber are smaller ones to the right and left. The roof of the latter has fallen in from the side of the hill, and admits plenty of light to view the interior. At intervals of a few paces, both in the large caves and the smaller ones, I f-1 there are recesses in the side walls, like minor altars in Eoman Catholic churches, and on them are described innumerable devices and figures representing the various divinities, etc. On the walls themselves...<