Storia do Mogor 11.3
Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 11.3
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11.3
(46) a dead Hindu half buried, and a woman begging alms for him ; (47) a Hindu asking for alms ; (47 bis) another Hindu mendicant ; (48) a Hindu penitent worshipping the sun ; (49) another Hindu penitent worshipping the sun ; (50) a Hindu penitent in a fixed position; (51) the same, another position; (52) another ascetic in a constrained posture; (53) another of these penitents ; (54) another instance ; (55) penitents adoring the Lingam ; (56) a Hindu penitent with a brazier on his head ; (57) Hindu strollers attached to temples asking alms and dancing; (57 bis) the same again; (58) a Brahman begging; (59) a Hindu on his way to consult a Brahman; (60) a Hindu selling Gangotri water; (61) a Hindu begging by singing and beating a drum; (62) Mahomedan annual mourning for the death of Hasan and Husain; (63) the idol of 'Manarou Lamy' [? Mantralammah, see 'Madras Manual of Ad.," iii. 530] with worshippers; (64) penitent in a constrained posture; (65) penitent standing and leaning on a rope attached to a tree; (66) a naked penitent with long hair and prodigious nails. Thus, with double numbers, there are sixty-nine plates in all. Most of them are crowded with figures in action, and are not merely drawings of the gods, goddesses, devotees, and penitents alone.