Cox, Hiram: Journal of a residence in the Burmhan Empire and more particulary at the court of Amarapoorah (London, 1821)

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any affinity with Caffres, but say that when Go-
doma assumed the religious habit, he cut off his
hair with his sword, leaving it rugged or furrowed,
and the features of a genuine Burmhan have a
good deal of the Caffre cast. These principal
niches form a kind of sanctum sanctorum, and arc
railed off, so as to prevent the too-near approach
of the multitude. Over each figure is suspended
a chattre of dominion. In the vestibule of the
western front, is a large stone with the prints of
the feet of Godoma. These arc only represen-
tations of those sacred impressions which he has
left in various parts of the earth, particularly in
the Burmhan dominions. The following are the
rough dimensions which I took of the building,
to form a ground-plan from. The outer wall of
the portico fourteen feet thick, breadth of the
passage ten feet. Portico or vestibule, length
forty feet, breadth twenty-one, height thirty-five
passage of ditto to first cloister or gallery, fourteen
feet length, breadth ten feet. First gallery, greatest
length 14-3 feet, breadth eighty-six, passage thence
to the inner gallery fourteen feet, breadth ten
feet; inner gallery, greatest length 101 feet ten
inches, breadth eight feet six inches. Niche for
the idol, breadth twenty feet, depth seventeen
feet, height thirty-five or forty feet. The parti-
tion-wall between the two galleries, and the outer
wall also, had several small arches for the passage