pagoda (pagoda)

[Formerly also pagod, pa gode (see pagod ), pagathoe, etc.; Hind.) butkadah, an idol-temple, a pagoda, Great Pagoda, Tanjore, Southern India. (Dravidian style of architecture.) ed, or otherwise adorned, and of several stories, connected or not with a temple. Such towers were originally raised over relics of Buddha, the bones of a saint, etc., but are now built chiefly as a work of merit on the part of some pious person, or for the purpose of improving the luck of the neighborhood. In China pagodas are from three to thirteen stories high (always an odd number). See pagod, 1. Near the pagoda, under a sacred canopy, hangs, within two feet of the ground, the Great Dagon bell. J. W. Palmer, Up and Down the Irrawaddi, p. 121. 21. An idol. In that king do me [Pegu] they spend many of these Sugar canes in making of houses and tents which they call Varely, for their idoles which they call Pagodes . IMG:content-2135.jpg:[ocr errors] Many deformed Pagathoes are here [in Callecut] worshipped. S. Clarke, Geog. Descrip. (1671), p. 29. 3. [Formerly also pagody ; so called with ref. to the figure of a pagoda on the coin. The natives in Madras called the coin hun and var ahā (Telugu) or varahan (Tamil).] A gold coin current in India from the six க Obverse. GONDIA Reverse. IMG:content-2136.jpg:[blocks in formation] teenth century. There were several varieties. value was approximately $1.70. Half and quarter-pago das were coined in silver. At the going out of Goa the horses pay custome, two and forty pagodies for euery horse, which pagody may be of sterling money sixe shillings eight pence, they be pieces of golde of that value. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 219. A portrait-painter, in the hope of picking up some of the pagodas which were then lightly got and as lightly spent by the English in India [etc.]. Macaulay, Warren Hastings. sion in frequent use in the latter part of the eighteenth and the first part of the nineteenth century. The Nabob of a couple of generations past, who had enriched himself when the pagoda -tree was worth the shaking . Saturday Rev. , Sept. 3, 1881, p. 307. pagodet (pa-gōd'), n. 1. Same as pagod .-2. A part of fashionable dre of the first half of the eighteenth century, apparently at first adopted by women and then by men who affected fashion. It consisted of an outer sleeve funnel shaped and turned back, exposing the lining and an inner sleeve of lawn or lace. Also pagoda - sleeve .