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92 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [January,
strangers are allowed access to all
parts of it. It covers a parallelogram
847x729 feet, with nine gopuram, the
tallest of which is 152 feet. The
temple is divided into two parts—one
dedicated to Minakshi, the fish-eyed
goddest, consort to Siva, and the other
to Siva. At the entrance is a long
corridor filled with dealers and their
wares, and no one moves to cast them
out of the temple. We had to leave
Sam here, as his caste did not permit
him to enter the inner precincts. A
aumber of priests accompanied us. In
the middle of the temple is the tank
of golden lillies, surrounded by a
painted arcade. We came down a
long, dark corridor lined with images
of Hindoo saints and gods, and
through rooms containing gold and
silver litters into the great "hall of
a thousand pillars." Though the number
is exaggerated, yet the elaborate
carving makes it the handsomest hall
of its kind in existence. Opposite to
it is the new gallery dedicated to
Siva, a hall 333 feet long by 105 broad,
supported by four rows of pillars.
The whole temple is lighted with a
"dim, religious light," half revealing,
half concealing the grotesque images
of kings and gods, and the effect is
very weird. Its great size and noble
proportions give it a dignity lacking
in the other Indian temples we had
visited.
During our stay here we formed the
acquaintance of the Rev. James Rowland,
a Tamil convert to Christianity,
named for his teacher, and a member
of the flourishing missionary colony
of Madura. He gave us a most interesting
account of his work among the
natives. We had already been much
impressed by the practical results of
the mission work in India, where
schools *and hospitals iare doing so
much to lessen the ignorance and sufferings
of the people, and even Christianity
is beginning to take root a little.
This is the supreme test, for
many missionaries give up their lives
to the cause without being able to
implant Christianity in the natives, so
far removed from it is the Oriental
mind, and yet it is said that the Sanscrit
language expresses the idea of
a triune God better than any other.
Indian women have been more
benefitted by the missionaries than
any other class, though, alas, very
much yet remains to be done before
they can approach even remotely to
the freedom and manifold privileges
of their occidental sisters. Their condition
now, however, is, on the whole,
less deplorable than it was some time
back, when they had no escape from
the barbarous custom of child marriages,
often followed either by a
cruelly persecuted widowhood, or else
by the scarcely worse suttee or burning
on the death of their husbands.
The purdah women, or those whose
caste demanded their faces to be
veiled, and then to be hidden behinc
purdahs or curtains, suffer tortures
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