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નગરશેઠ શાંતિદાસ ઝવેરી after the manner of cur cloisters in monasteries, having also its seats or cells and in every cell a marble statue, white or black, representing a woman – naked, sitting and having her legs lying cross under her according to the mode of the country. There were some which had three statues, to wit, a great one between two little ones.
" At the entrance into the mosque, there are two elephants of black marble done to the life, and upon one of them the effigy of the founder. The whole mosque is vaulted and the walls adorned with several figures of men and other living creatures. There was not anything within the mosque, save that at the further end of the structure there were three chapels or obscure places, divided one from the other by wooden rails, wherein might be seen statues of marble, like those we had seen in the cells, with this difference only that there was a lighted lamp before that which stood in the middle..
“We saw there also one of their priests who was then busy in receiving, from the hands of such as came thither to do their devotions, flowers wherewith he adorned his images; as also oil for the lamps which hung before the rails, and wheat and salt for the sacrifice, while he set the flowers about the statues. His mouth and nose were covered with a linen cloth, lest the impurity of his breath should pri fane the mystery, and coming ever and anon near the lamp he muttered over certain prayers and rubbed his hands up and down in the flame thereof as if he had washed them in the smoke, and
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