Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16502

    Buddhist temple and statues at Kanheri, Salsette Island

    Date
    1709
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p186
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 255mm
    width (paper): 193mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Drawing of Buddha temple and statues on the hill of Kanheri, Salsette Island, with calculations of a porter's wages for two quarters scribbled on in ink.

    The image accompanied a report to Hans Sloane from Alexander Stuart (1673?-1742), who was a ship's surgeon on Europe from 1704 to 1707, which sailed to India and Persia. It was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 26, no. 321 (1709), p. 372.
    Transcription
    'porters allouance betwixt May 14 and December 25'
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    Alexander Stuart, ‘An Explanation of the Figures of a Pagan Temple and Unknown Characters at Cannara in Salset’, Phil. Trans., vol. 26, no. 321 (1709), p. 372.
    Related fellows
    Alexander Stuart (1668 - 1742) , Surgeon
    Associated place
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