. India, past and present / C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. hed a dynasty which survived to thebeginning of the nineteenth century. Conspicuous from every point of the city are thedomes of the Great Pagoda, whose vimana reachesan altitude of two hundred feet. The temple enclosurecontains the famous Great Bull of Tanjore. Theanimal is cut from a single block of black granite. Inits recumbent position the figure measures nearly thir-teen feet in height. The palace within the Fort has in its libraryaunique collection of Sanskrit manuscripts, eighteenthousand in number, about one-half being inscriptionsupon
. India, past and present / C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. hed a dynasty which survived to thebeginning of the nineteenth century. Conspicuous from every point of the city are thedomes of the Great Pagoda, whose vimana reachesan altitude of two hundred feet. The temple enclosurecontains the famous Great Bull of Tanjore. Theanimal is cut from a single block of black granite. Inits recumbent position the figure measures nearly thir-teen feet in height. The palace within the Fort has in its libraryaunique collection of Sanskrit manuscripts, eighteenthousand in number, about one-half being inscriptionsupon palm leaves. This district was the scene of the earliest labors ofProtestant missionaries in India. The first of these,Ziegenbalg, made his way into Tanjore disguised as anative. He encountered serious opposition at first,but eventually secured the consent of the rdja to hismission. After effecting many conversions and trans-lating the New Testament into the Tamil language,Ziegenbalg died, in 1719, and was followed by able Sacred Bull—Tanjore. CHIDAMBARAM. 213 successors. The best remembered of these is tliesoldier priest Schwartz, who in the time of Clive wasthe chief adviser of the raja, and after his deceasethe guardian of his sou. Schwartz spent forty-eightyears among the people here, and died in 1798,mourned by the whole kingdom. His cliurch by theSivaganga Tank contains a fine marble group byFlaxman, depicting the aged missionary upon hisdeath-bed ; on one side his ward and pupil. Raja,Sharfoji; on the other his colleague, Kohlner. TheEnglish Church, in the adjacent Peoples Park,contains a handsome memorial tablet to Schwartz,and the churchyard holds the grave of LordHastings. Chidambaram can boast the oldest pagodas in thesouth of India. The Temple of Siva owes its origin,or at least considerable embellishment, to the leprousEmperor Swetha-varna, the white colored, whocame here from the north on a pilgrimage, and wasmiraculously cured of his affliction by bathing in t
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