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sculptured upon it, the decollations apparently having been panels of 

 diaper work chiefly. I give a sketch of the beautifully executed 

 doorway, chiefly on account of the singular ornament at the lower 

 angle of the door-frame, representing what "I must call for shortness 

 an arabesque sea monster, and exactly similar to a constant ornament 

 over the openings of the great Pagan temples on the Irawadi. (See 

 Fig. 8). It is found also in Southern India. The small cells or 

 chapels are each about 10 or 11 feet square. Their walls are carved 

 with mythological figures in bas-relief, and each has been crowned 

 by a small dagoba of the genuine Buddhist pattern. They all open 

 outward, except the 3d row which stands back to back with the outer 

 row,* and each has contained a cross-legged Buddha, of which some 

 remain. There are groups of modern temples about Calcutta and 

 Burdwan, somewhat similar in general arrangement. Mr. Fergusson 

 appears to doubt whether he should not class this as a Jain temple. 



I know little about Jains, but will answer for it that any Burmese 

 would find himself at home in it as a monument of unmistakeable 

 Buddhism. 



Guarding the outer end of the avenue, by which we approached, 

 are two gigantic warders, standing or rather kneeling, about 9 feet 

 in height, with club grasped in the right hand, and a snake which 

 twists round the body grasped in the left, with crisped hair and great 

 staring eyeballs ; also closely resembling the similar figures in mar- 

 ble and in stucco which are so common in Burma. (Fig. 9.) 



The central temple is apparently that which is represented in the 

 plates to BafHest as the " Great Temple at Brambanan," whilst one 

 of the cells is represented, J as " one of the smaller temples at Bram- 

 banan." It strikes me, however, that they are both very inaccurate, 

 and the elaborate restoration of the great temple which is given in 

 PL 40 is, I have no hesitation in saying, preposterously improbable. 



In conclusion, as it is a point of some interest, I may note that Mr. 

 Crawfurd says,§ that, though the interior vault of the temples is a false 

 one, " the builders of Brambanan had possessed the art of turning 

 an elliptical arch and vault, for the entrances or doorways are all 

 arched, and the roofs all vaulted." I think this is another instance 



* This from Eaffles's plate. 



t 2d edition, PL 39. 



% PI. 41. § History of Indian Archipelago, II. 196. 



