Cursetjee Manockjee (1763–1845) stands atop a 40-foot column, holding sandalwood in one hand and a book in the other, above four mermaids blowing conches. His son commissioned the monument after seeing a Chilean fountain at a London exhibition in 1862, and installed it in 1867 without formal approval. Neighbours once offered it coconuts and prayers. It now sits hemmed in by two flyovers at Byculla.