. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . racery and sculptures with which the singularly-formed columns of the entrance, and also of the interior, are decorated, are exquisitelydelicate, and, in many places, still preserve the fresh impress of the original , with these works of marvellous beauty and grandeur, as with those found in theinterior of the temple, ignorance and
. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . racery and sculptures with which the singularly-formed columns of the entrance, and also of the interior, are decorated, are exquisitelydelicate, and, in many places, still preserve the fresh impress of the original , with these works of marvellous beauty and grandeur, as with those found in theinterior of the temple, ignorance and superstition have committed strange and barbarousliavoc; and the blind fanaticism of the Portuguese has more than aided the ravages oftime in the work of dilapidation and ruin. The ultra-bigots of the European peninsula,who have never been able to tolerate any idolatry but their own, very soon after theirfirst settlement upon the island of Bombay and its dependencies (of which Gare-pooriwas one of the most remarkable), found emj)loyment for their ill-directed zeal in thedestruction of every accessible relic of the worship of the natives, however curious andwonderful, as a work of art, might be the object of their antipathy. In these caves, f^ >.
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