Trivandrum Oct' 6 7

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• Part 4
• Trivandrum (Oct. 6 - 7)
• and
• Kanyakumari (Oct. 8 - 10)

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Sapirs route

• On the day before the Holy Sabbath, we
• came to the great city of Trivandrum.
• Most of the inhabitants of the city are
  idolaters Hindus, and a few of them are
  Portuguese Christians and merchants of Britannia.
  
• And we rested here on the Sabbath day.

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Shri Padmanabhaswamy temple, built in Tamil
style, with a tall seven-tiered gopuram (gateway
tower)
the temples huge tank, where worshipers purify
themselves
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I saw the Rajah on that day as he passed
through the market, sitting

• in his little carriage harnessed to two
  decorated Arabian horses. Before him and after
  him, twenty soldiers from his personal guard rode
  on swift horses, but he alone sat in the wagon.
  His clothes were of colorful silk extending below
  his knees, his head was shaven and covered by a
  small red turban inlaid with crown jewels of
  ruby, sapphire, and emerald with a wreath of gold
  inlaid around it.

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Some 19th-century kings of Travancore
the king whom Sapir saw
Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma ruled 1829-1846
Uthradom Thirunal ruled 1846-1860
Ayilyam Thirunal, ruled 1860-80
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the Puttan Malika (horse palace)
horse-shaped pillars supporting the roof
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about palanquins
The nobles and the great princes are driven in a
wagon or carried in a box called a palqi

• palanquin which is lifted on the shoulder of
  four human beings. . . . The one to be carried
  in it enters inside and sits or reclines as in
  his room and four Indians lift him on their
  shoulders and run like the running of horses.
• And traveling in this is more comfortable than
  in a wagon because he sits or rests in perfect
  peace without any shaking and he can do in it
  whatever he wishes, even reading and writing, and
  also by means of their running they bring puffs
  of wind inside it, for the one sitting in it in
  the heat of the day.

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Drawing of a palanquin at the Puttan Malika Palace
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• And the rest of the fruits of the tree and
  greens and beans are found here in plenty, and
  nothing like them has been seen or exists in the
  lands of Europe. Also many varieties of all
  kinds of spices, cassia and cinnamon, clove and
  peppers according to their kinds, and Muscat nuts
  and betel, numerous in the land, and the tree
  which makes the banana fruit.

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Connemara Market
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Sapir Emissaries of Protestants in England
endeavor here, as in all this land, to bring the
people of the land into the covenant of the new
religion, and they have here a large school by
will of the government of Britannia, for the
young men of the city.
Paul George, an expat visiting from Florida, who
believes in acts of random kindness
Alphie (right), manager of the Trivandrum YMCA,
and his friend, an insurance salesman
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Respite from Jacobs route detour to
Kanyakumari (Oct. 8-10)
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Vivekananda Memorial
Gandhi Mandapam
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the Kumari Amman Temple
our Brahmin guide
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fishing village
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Stanunathaswami Temple in Suchindram at sunset,
12 km north of Kanyakumari