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Java, but Buddhism did not.* I do not take up more time with 

 these, as there is a full description of them inserted in Baffles. 



The only other group of temples that I will notice is that called 

 Cliandi Sewu, or the Thousand Temples, also described in Eaffles. The 

 group consists of one large central cruciform temple, as usual, with 

 three blind porches and a fourth on the east giving access to the 

 interior. But this is surrounded by four successive squares of small 

 cells or temples, the outer square of which is upwards of 500 feet in 

 the side. Many of these small cells are obliterated, and without 

 more time than I had it would be difficult to say accurately their 

 original number. A plan however is given in Baffles, which shows 

 that the inner square has 8 temples to the side, the next has 12, and 

 the two outer squares 20 and 22 respectively. I note this, because 

 I suppose its accuracy may be assumed, and because its discrepancy 

 from my own notes shows how apt a hurried notice in such matters 

 is to err, even when there is a desire to be accurate. f My notes men- 

 tion only 3 squares, containing respectively 8, 12 and 24 temples to 

 the side, and I took some pains to allow correctly, by pacing, for the 

 intervals where numerous temples were obliterated. However, I am 

 amused to find that a man who probably had no such plea of haste 

 as I, and is an observer by profession, Dr. F. Junghuhn, the author 

 of the chief physical account of Java, in a paper on the same subject 

 as my own, declares that there are 176 in the 4 squares, respectively 

 28, 36, 52, and 60. The whole number will be, according to Barnes's 

 plan, in the four squares 240, besides four pairs placed intermediately 

 between the 2d and 3d squares and flanking the avenues of approach. 



The central temple is greatly shattered, and the image (a great 

 Buddha 1 doubt notj) which it contained, is gone. It stands with 

 its porches on a terrace slightly elevated. There are no figures 



* "On fut ainsi pendant quatre-vingt-dix jours ; alors on arriva a un royaurne 

 nomine Vepho-thi. Les heretiques et les Brahmanes ysont en grand nombre, il n'y 

 est pas question de la loi de Foe." — Relation des Royaumes Bouddhiques, 360. 



f I may apologize for such inaccuracy by the fact that 1 was only recovering 

 from a long illness, and was incapable of exertion in a hot sun. 



I What Crawfurd says in speaking of this is misleading: "Each of the 

 smaller temples had contained a figure of Buddha, and the great central one, con- 

 sisting of several apartments, figures of the principal objects of worship, which, 

 in every case that I have had an opportunity of examining, have consisted of the 

 destroying power of the Hindu triad or some of his family." The central tem- 

 ple of Chandi Sewu was empty then as it is now, and this merely states* a fore- 

 gone (and I believe quite mistaken) conclusion. 



* Indian Archipelago, II. 196. 



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