A True And Exact Description Of The Most Celebrated East-India Coasts Of Malabar And Coromandel:- As Also Of The Isle Of Ceylon - PAPERBACK

About the Book:-Through this multi-volume book, the author has tried to portray a true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the isle of Ceylon; with all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, chief harbours, structures, pagan temples, products, and living creatures: the manners, habits economies and ceremonies of the inhabitants. It is also likewise the most remarkable war like exploits, sieges, sea and field-engagements between the Portuguese and Dutch; with their traffic and commerce. The whole adorned with new maps and draughts of the chief cities, forts, habits, living creatures, fruits, etc., of the product of the Indies, drawn to the life, and cut in copper plates. It is also a most circumstantial and complete account of the idolatry of the pagans in the East Indies, the Malabars, Benjans, Gentives, Brahmans etc. It is taken partly from their own Vedam, or law-book, and authentic manuscripts with the draughts of their idols, done after their originals. This multi-volume discourse is translated from the high-Dutch printed at Amsterdam in 1672. About the Author:-Philippus Baldaeus was a Dutch minister. He went to Jaffna during the Dutch period in Ceylon with an invading Dutch force. As the second European after Abraham Rogerius he documented the life, language and culture of Tamil people, living in the north of the island. It is a great historical record, and it was immediately published in Dutch and German (with several beautiful pictures). English translation was published by Ceylon Government Railway (1960). He is the author of Description of the East Indian Countries of Malabar, Coromandel, Ceylon, etc and the first European document about the life, language and culture of the Tamil people in northern Ceylon.Baldaeus wrote much about the religious, civil and domestic conditions of the places he visited and introduced his account of the Hindu mythology