Chapter PADRE to PAGODA of P by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

seeing that the Governor was going to the pagode, they sent to offer him 50,000 pardaos not to go.”—Correa, iv. 325-326.

1554.—“And for the monastery of Santa Fee 845,000 reis yearly, besides the revenue of the Paguodes which His Highness bestowed upon the said House, which gives 600,000 reis a year.…”—Botelho, Tombo, in Subsidios, 70.

1563.—“They have (at Baçaim) in one part a certain island called Salsete, where there are two pagodes or houses of idolatry.”—Garcia, f. 211c.

1582.—“…Pagode, which is the house of praiers to their Idolls.”—Castañaeda (by N. L.), f. 34.

1594.—“And as to what you have written to me, viz., that although you understand how necessary it was for the increase of the Christianity of those parts to destroy all the pagodas and mosques (pagodes e mesquitas), which the Gentiles and the Moors possess in the fortified places of this State.…” (The King goes on to enjoin the Viceroy to treat this matter carefully with some theologians and canonists of those parts, but not to act till he shall have reported to the King).—Letter from the K. of Portugal to the Viceroy, in Arch. Port. Orient., Fasc. 3, p. 417.

1598.—“…houses of Diuels [Divels] which they call Pagodes.”—Linschoten, 22; [Hak. Soc. i. 70].

1606.—Gouvea uses pagode both for a temple and for an idol, e.g., see f. 46v, f. 47.

1630.—“That he should erect pagods for God’s worship, and adore images under green trees.”—Lord, Display, &c.

1638.—“There did meet us at a great Pogodo or Pagod, which is a famous and sumptuous Temple (or Church).”—W. Bruton, in Hakl. v. 49.

1674.—“Thus they were carried, many flocking about them, to a Pagod or Temple” (pagode in the orig.).—Stevens’ Faria y Sousa, i. 45.

1674.—“Pagod (quasi Pagan-God), an Idol or false god among the Indians; also a kind of gold coin among them equivalent to our Angel.”—Glossographia, &c., by T. S.

1689.—“A Pagoda…borrows its Name from the Persian word Pout, which signifies Idol; thence Pout-Gheda, a Temple of False Gods, and from thence Pagode.”—Ovington, 159.

1696.—“…qui eussent élévé des pagodes au milieu des villes.”—La Bruyere, Caractères, ed. Jouast, 1881, ii. 306.

[1710.—“In India we use this word pagoda (pagodes) indiscriminately for idols or temples of the Gentiles.”—Oriente Conquistado, vol. i. Conq. i. Div. i. 53.]

1717.—“…the Pagods, or Churches.”—Phillip’s Account, 12.

1727.—“There are many ancient Pagods or Temples in this country, but there is one very particular which stands upon a little Mountain near Vizagapatam, where they worship living Monkies.”—A. Hamilton, i. 380 [ed. 1744].

1736.—“Págod [incert. etym.], an idol’s temple in China.”—Bailey’s Dict. 2nd ed.

1763.—“These divinities are worshipped in temples called Pagodas in every part of Indostan.”—Orme, Hist. i. 2.

1781.—“During this conflict (at Chillumbrum), all the Indian females belonging to the garrison were collected at the summit of the highest pagoda, singing in a loud and melodious chorus hallelujahs, or songs of exhortation, to their people below, which inspired the enemy with a kind of frantic enthusiasm. This, even in the heat of the attack, had a romantic and pleasing effect, the musical sounds being distinctly heard at a considerable distance by the assailants.”—Munro’s Narrative, 222.

1809.—

“In front, with far stretch’d walls, and many a tower,
Turret, and dome, and pinnacle elate,
The huge Pagoda seemed to load the land.”

Kehama, viii. 4.

[1830.—“…pagodas, which are so termed from paug, an idol, and ghoda, a temple(!)…”—Mrs. Elwood, Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, ii. 27.]

1855.—“…Among a dense cluster of palm-trees and small pagodas, rises a colossal Gaudama, towering above both, and, Memnon-like, glowering before him with a placid and eternal smile.”—Letters from the Banks of the Irawadee, Blackwood’s Mag., May, 1856.

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1498.—“And the King gave the letter with his own hand, again repeating the words of the oath he had made, and swearing besides by his pagodes, which are their idols, that they adore for gods.…”—Correa, Lendas, i. 119.

1582.—“The Divell is oftentimes in them, but they say it is one of their Gods or Pagodes.”—Castañeda (tr. by N. L.), f. 37.

[In the following passage from the same author, as Mr. Whiteway points out, the word is used in both senses, a temple and an idol:

“In Goa I have seen this festival in a pagoda, that stands in the island of Divar, which is called Çapatu, where people collect from a long distance; they bathe in the arm of the sea between the two islands, and they believe…that on that day the idol (pagode) comes to that water, and they cast in for him much