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A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER
VII.
August 22.
August 23.
Appearance
of the coun-
try.
Turiver—
Caray.
Religious
buildings.
concomitant of clumsiness among the buildings of rude nations;
and the walls, although not above fourteen feet high, and built of
large stones which have suffered no injury, are yielding to the
pressure of the roof, and probably will soon fall. It is said to have
been built by one of the Sholun Rdyas.
23d August.—In the morning I was detained by a very heavy
rain, which has given the people high spirits. In the afternoon I
went two cosses to Turka-Caray, the residence of an Amildar. The
country afforded a melancholy prospect. Like that near Banga-
lore, and the other places toward the eastern Ghats, it rises into
gentle swells, and occasionally projects amass of naked granite, or
of quartz blackened by iron; but it has once been completely cul-
tivated ; and every spot, except those covered by rock, bears
marks of the plough. Scattered clumps of trees denote the former
situations of numerous villages : all now, however, are nearly de-
serted. I saw only two houses; and a few fields ploughing for
Horse-gram seemed to be the commencement of cultivation, from
the time the country had been laid desolate by the merciless army
of Purseram Bhow~.
Turiva-Caray consists of an outer and an inner fort, strongly de-
fended by a ditch and mud wall. It has besides, at a little distance,
an open suburb, and contains 700 houses ; but is by no means com-
pletely rebuilt. It has no merchants of any note ; but contains
20 houses of Devdnga weavers, and 150 of farmers. It possesses two
small temples, similar to that at Arulu Gupay ; and which, like it,
are said to have been built by a Sholun Raya, who was contemporary
with Sankara Achdrya, the restorer of the doctrine of the Vedas.
This prince is very celebrated, by having built temples through-
out the country south from the Krishna river. All of them that I
have seen are small, and. entirely built of stone. Their architecture
is very different from the'great temples, such as that at Kunji; the
upper parts of which are always formed of bricks, and whose most
conspicuous part is the gateway. This last mentioned system of
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER
VII.
August 22.
August 23.
Appearance
of the coun-
try.
Turiver—
Caray.
Religious
buildings.
concomitant of clumsiness among the buildings of rude nations;
and the walls, although not above fourteen feet high, and built of
large stones which have suffered no injury, are yielding to the
pressure of the roof, and probably will soon fall. It is said to have
been built by one of the Sholun Rdyas.
23d August.—In the morning I was detained by a very heavy
rain, which has given the people high spirits. In the afternoon I
went two cosses to Turka-Caray, the residence of an Amildar. The
country afforded a melancholy prospect. Like that near Banga-
lore, and the other places toward the eastern Ghats, it rises into
gentle swells, and occasionally projects amass of naked granite, or
of quartz blackened by iron; but it has once been completely cul-
tivated ; and every spot, except those covered by rock, bears
marks of the plough. Scattered clumps of trees denote the former
situations of numerous villages : all now, however, are nearly de-
serted. I saw only two houses; and a few fields ploughing for
Horse-gram seemed to be the commencement of cultivation, from
the time the country had been laid desolate by the merciless army
of Purseram Bhow~.
Turiva-Caray consists of an outer and an inner fort, strongly de-
fended by a ditch and mud wall. It has besides, at a little distance,
an open suburb, and contains 700 houses ; but is by no means com-
pletely rebuilt. It has no merchants of any note ; but contains
20 houses of Devdnga weavers, and 150 of farmers. It possesses two
small temples, similar to that at Arulu Gupay ; and which, like it,
are said to have been built by a Sholun Raya, who was contemporary
with Sankara Achdrya, the restorer of the doctrine of the Vedas.
This prince is very celebrated, by having built temples through-
out the country south from the Krishna river. All of them that I
have seen are small, and. entirely built of stone. Their architecture
is very different from the'great temples, such as that at Kunji; the
upper parts of which are always formed of bricks, and whose most
conspicuous part is the gateway. This last mentioned system of