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sacred relic, generally a bone of Buddha ; besides, 

 there had been an enormous statue of the latter. 

 Now the space is empty, and the whole of the upper 

 stories are very much ruined. Strange enough there 

 is no interior to the temple beyond the cells already 

 named, and the dagoba in the centre. 



The material used in the construction of this 

 enormous edifice, is granite in large blocks, fitted 

 together a23parently without cement ; and the entire 

 structure, every stone in it, is covered with sculpture. 

 The dimensions throughout, the height of the different 

 stories, the width of the galleries, the pitch of every 

 cupola, nay, the size of all the ornamentations, are in 

 the most perfect proportion to the whole edifice. 



The sculptures represent the creation of man, 

 marriage and death, also scenes from the life of 

 Buddha, elephant and rhinoceros hunts, battles and 

 sea fights, agriculture and various arts ; and although 

 time and climatical influences have done much to 

 injure the carvings, there is sufiicient evidence to 

 show what great skill has been exercised in producing 

 them : they are proof of the high state of civilization 

 and artistic feeling of that early time. 



The Dutch Government, a few years ago, published a 

 most exhaustive account of the temple of Boro-Bodo, a 

 copy of which has been presented to the Boyal 



