22 January 1790: "The Temple ...terminates the top of the hill of Seeta, and was dedicated to Mandeswara, one of the appellations of Maha-Deva". Mandesvara ("the Bald-Headed", a name for Shiva) was excavated and restored early this century. The depiction of the God with a lingam in the interior view would have created great contemporary interest, for Indian phallic symbols were then linked with the Graeco-Roman Priapus cult.
23 January 1790: In Chainpur, in the Shahabad district, an area from where The East India Company would draw some of its best sepoys, Thomas Daniell chose to depict an "Eed-Gah, a place designed for the performance of solemn festivals by the professors of the Mahomedan religion...of open quadrangular form, somewhat resembling the courts before the Musjeds, or Mosques".