India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . nted large in red andwhite. It was amusing to see the animal pick upa two-anna piece from the ground, and pass it overits head to its keeper and driver seated on its younger and smaller elephant soon joinedthe other, and this one had beautiful tusks whichhis larger companion was without. This one, too,skilfully picked up the small coins in the same way,fumbling with the sensitive finger-like point of histrunk to get hold of them in the crannies of thepavement. We then, passing across this secon
India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . nted large in red andwhite. It was amusing to see the animal pick upa two-anna piece from the ground, and pass it overits head to its keeper and driver seated on its younger and smaller elephant soon joinedthe other, and this one had beautiful tusks whichhis larger companion was without. This one, too,skilfully picked up the small coins in the same way,fumbling with the sensitive finger-like point of histrunk to get hold of them in the crannies of thepavement. We then, passing across this second court,entered the Hall of a Thousand Columns—a sort ofarchitectural forest. Before this is reached, how-ever, there is a smaller hall which has a veryremarkable ranee of carved columns—the mostextraordinary carved stone work in Southern are strictly speaking rather columnar brackets,bracketed columns or corbels resting on bases, and 274 INDIA IMPRESSIONS they represent warriors on horses spearing lionsand tigers. The chief feature in each is the rearing in ? &. THE SACRED ELEPHANTS OF SERINGHAM—SECURING TWO-ANNA PIECES! horse, which with its rider and lance, and smallerfigures below, and the attacking tiger, or, sometimes,elephant, form a connected group cut out of a single MADRAS AND THE SOUTH 275 block of stone. These sculptures have so barbaricand antique an appearance that it seems surprisingthey should only date from the seventeenth andeighteenth centuries together with the whole of thetemple buildings. A curious effect is given to the interior of someof the temples here by the practice of whitewashingthe pillars and walls, and leaving the carved figuresuntouched in the stone, which gives them bycontrast an unusually swarthy appearance. Returning, we had a view of the Rock ofTrichinopoly with the old fort and temple on thesummit. This syenite rock crops out in variousplaces in this district, but not often rising muchabove the ground, but only emerging he
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