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

Part 4: Trivandrum (Oct. 6 - 7) and Kanyakumari (Oct. 8 - 10). Sapir’s route. “On the day before the Holy Sabbath, we came to the great city of Trivandrum .

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

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

  2. Sapir’s 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.”

  3. Shri Padmanabhaswamy temple, built in Tamil style, with a tall seven-tiered gopuram (gateway tower) the temple’s huge tank, where worshipers purify themselves

  4. “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.”

  5. Some 19th-century kings of Travancore: the king whom Sapir saw: Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma ruled 1829-1846 Uthradom Thirunal ruled 1846 - Aug. 18, 1860 Ayilyam Thirunal ruled 1860-80

  6. the Puttan Malika (“horse palace”) horse-shaped pillars supporting the roof

  7. 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.”

  8. Drawing of a palanquin at the Puttan Malika Palace

  9. “And the other kinds of fruit of the tree and beans and vegetables are found here in plenty, and nothing like them has been seen or found 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 and betel nuts, are numerous in the land.”

  10. Connemara Market

  11. Sapir: “Emissaries of Protestants from 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 theTrivandrum YMCA, and his friend, an insurance salesman

  12. Respite from Jacob’s route: detour to Kanyakumari (Oct. 8-10)

  13. Vivekananda Memorial Gandhi Mandapam

  14. the Kumari Amman Temple our Brahmin guide

  15. fishing village

  16. Stanunathaswami Temple in Suchindram at sunset, 12 km north of Kanyakumari

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