Oriental Scenery/Part 5/Plate 21
No. XXI.
A PAVILION BELONGING TO AN HINDOO TEMPLE.
This view was taken near Mavelaporam on the Coromandel coast. Most of the Hindoo Temples in the southern part of Hindoostan have attached pavilions, which in general are much decorated.
They are principally used for the purpose of receiving the idol of the Temple, on those festival days when it is thought proper to make such an exhibition for the gratification of the populace. On those occasions it is conveyed to its situation with great pomp, amidst the acclamations of the people, by whom it is received with every token of enthusiastic rapture; and after the performance of certain religious rites, it is again returned to the temple with the same pageantry, and attended with the same frantic circumstances.
A Pavilion belonging to an Hindoo Temple.