16 Ancient Javanese Remains. [No. 1, 



Notes of a brief visit to some of the Indian remains in Java. — By 

 Lieut. -Colonel Henry Yule, Bengal Engineers. 



It is not likely that much of what I have to say on this subject 

 has not already been told. Bat these remains are now seldom visit- 

 ed by travellers from India ; the accounts of them are probably not 

 familiar ; and they are surrounded with such deep interest to all who 

 care for Indian antiquity, that I trust my brief account will not be 

 regarded as superfluous. 



It is well known that the central and eastern portions of Java 

 abound with remains of unquestionable Indian origin, both Buddhistic 

 and Brahminical, uniting with the evidence of language and literature 

 in testifying to an extensive intercourse between the countries, of 

 which nothing like real history remains. The accounts of these 

 ruins by Baffles and Crawfurd had long ago excited my curiosity, and 

 the opportunity I enjoyed some years ago of exploring analogous 

 remains in Burma had converted this into a deeper and more intelli- 

 gent interest. When therefore in September 1860 I found myself 

 obliged to take a sea voyage, the chance of seeing with my own eyes 

 these mysterious remains not a little influenced me in directing my 

 course to Java. 



The localities visited were Boro Bodor and its vicinity in the valley 

 of Kadu, a very garden of cultivation even in that pearl of islands, 

 and Brambanan on the borders of the two still quasi-independent 

 states of Solo and Djokjokarta. 



My companion in these visits was Dr. Macpherson of the Madras 

 Army, whose praiseworthy exertions in the exploration of primeval 

 antiquities at Kertch during the Crimean war are well known. In 

 our visit to Boro Bodor, we had the advantage of the company of 

 Mr. Elliott Martin, an English gentleman long resident as a planter 

 in the interior of Java. Boro Bodor we visited from Magelang, the 

 " Suddur station," as we should call it, of the Kadu district, from 

 which it is thirteen miles distant. 



Our first object was the temple of Mundot, about 3 miles from 

 the greater monument, Boro Bodor. 



This temple was not known to Baffles and Crawfurd, and possibly 

 has not been described in any English book. Nothing but a tumulus 



