Chapter PADRE to PAGODA of P by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

betel and many plantains and sugar-canes; and they believe that the idol (pagode) eats those things.”—Castanheda, ii. ch. 34. In the orig., pagode when meaning a temple has a small, and when the idol, a capital, P.]

1584.—“La religione di queste genti non si intende per esser differenti sette fra loro; hanno certi lor pagodi che son gli idoli.…”—Letter of Sassetti, in De Gubernatis, 155.

1587.—“The house in which his pagode or idol standeth is covered with tiles of silver.”—R. Fitch, in Hakl. ii. 391.

1598.—“…The Pagodes, their false and divelish idols.”—Linschoten, 26; [Hak. Soc. i. 86].

1630.—“…so that the Bramanes under each green tree erect temples to pagods. …”—Lord, Display, &c.

c. 1630.—“Many deformed Pagothas are here worshipped; having this ordinary evasion that they adore not Idols, but the Deumos which they represent.”—Sir T. Herbert, ed. 1665, p. 375.

1664.—

“Their classic model proved a maggot, Their Directory an Indian Pagod.” Hudibras, Pt. II. Canto i.

1693.—“…For, say they, what is the Pagoda? it is an image or stone.…”—In Wheeler, i. 269.

1727.—“…the Girl with the Pot of Fire on her Head, walking all the Way before. When they came to the End of their journey…where was placed another black stone Pagod, the Girl set her Fire before it, and run stark mad for a Minute or so.”—A. Hamilton, i. 274 [ed. 1744].

c. 1737.—

“See thronging millions to the Pagod run,
And offer country, Parent, wife or son.”

Pope, Epilogue to Sat. I.

1814.—“Out of town six days. On my return, find my poor little pagod, Napoleon, pushed off his pedestal;—the thieves are in Paris.”—Letter of Byron’s, April 8, in Moore’s Life, ed. 1832, iii. 21.

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c. 1566.—“Nell’ vscir poi li caualli Arabi di Goa, si paga di datio quaranta due pagodi per cauallo, et ogni pagodo val otto lire alla nostra moneta; e sono monete d’oro; de modo che li caualli Arabi sono in gran prezzo in que’ paesi, come sarebbe trecento quattro cento, cinque cento, e fina mille ducati l’vno.”—C. Federici, in Ramusio, iii. 388.

1597.—“I think well to order and decree that the pagodes which come from without shall not be current unless they be of forty and three points (assay?) conformable to the first issue, which is called of Agra, and which is of the same value as that of the San Tomes, which were issued in its likeness.”—Edict of the King, in Archiv. Port. Orient. iii. 782.

1598.—“There are yet other sorts of money called Pagodes.…They are Indian and Heathenish money with the picture of a Diuell vpon them, and therefore are called Pagodes.”—Linschoten, 54 and 69; [Hak. Soc. i. 187, 242].

1602.—“And he caused to be sent out for the Kings of the Decan and Canara two thousand horses from those that were in Goa, and this brought the King 80,000 pagodes, for every one had to pay forty as duty. These were imported by the Moors and other merchants from the ports of Arabia and Persia; in entering Goa they are free and uncharged, but on leaving that place they have to pay these duties.”—Couto, IV. vi. 6.

[„ “…with a sum of gold pagodes, a coin of the upper country (Balagate), each of which is worth 500 reis (say lls. 3d.; the usual value was 360 reis).”—Ibid. VII. i. 11.]

1623.—“…An Indian Gentile Lord called Rama Rau, who has no more in all than 2000 pagod [paygods] of annual revenue, of which again he pays about 800 to Venktapà Naieka, whose tributary he is. …”—P. della Valle, ii. 692; [Hak. Soc. ii. 306].

1673.—“About this time the Rajah…was weighted in Gold, and poised about 16,000 Pagods.”—Fryer, 80.

1676.—“For in regard these Pagods are very thick, and cannot be clipt, those that are Masters of the trade, take a Piercer, and pierce the Pagod through the side, halfway or more, taking out of one piece as much Gold as comes to two or three Sous.”—Tavernier, E.T. 1684, ii. 4; [Ball, ii. 92].

1780.—“Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bart., resigned the Government of Fort St. George on the Mg. of the 9th inst., and immediately went on board the General Barker. It is confidently reported that he has not been able to accumulate a very large Fortune, considering the long time he has been at Madrass; indeed people say it amounts to only 17 Lacks and a half of Pagodas, or a little more than £600,000 sterling.”—Hicky’s Bengal Gazette, April 15.

1785.—“Your servants have no Trade in this country, neither do you pay them high wages, yet in a few years they return to England with many lacs of pagodas.”—Nabob of Arcot, in Burke’s Speech on the Nabob’s Debts, Works, ed. 1852, iv. 18.

1796.—“La Bhagavadi, moneta d’oro, che ha l’immagine della dea Bhagavadi, nome corrotto in Pagodi o Pagode dagli Europei, è moneta rotonda, convessa in una parte…”—Fra Paolino, 57.

1803.—“It frequently happens that in the bazaar, the star pagoda exchanges for 4 rupees, and at other times for not more than 3.”—Wellington, Desp., ed. 1837, ii. 375.