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material, one of brick stuccoed, the other of stone elaborately- 

 wrought. And yet of this form we find no type any where in India 

 that I know of; the nearest being those Cashmere temples, but 

 altogether different in their style and ornamentation.* They must 

 have had a common original. Where was it ? It is impossible to 

 suppose tbat Buddhists in India were familiar with certain styles of 

 building, and when emigrating, or driven forth, to two very different 

 quarters of the further East, developed a new style and that sub- 

 stantially the same in each case. The natural and general belief is 

 that the emigrations from India to Java took place from the coast of 

 Kalinga and Orissa, and the name of Kling, given by the Malays to the 

 Indians among them, confirms this notion. But there is no resem- 

 blance whatever in tbe plan of these edifices to the great temples of 

 that coast, such as Bhobaneswar, Juggurnath and Kanarak. Raf- 

 fles has a tradition of connexion with Gruzerat ; and it is possible that 

 in Western India the original type may be found. I have never 

 seen any drawing of the temple of Somnath except a very coarse 

 one in the Society's Journal, and in that there are some remarkable 

 traces distinguishable of the same style. I am not able to go a step 

 in solving the problem, but I think I show that there is a problem to 

 solve — if there were but anybody now-a-days among us who cared 

 about such problems !f 



P. S. — Though the matter has no relation to the subject of the 

 preceding paper except as being connected with Java, it may be 

 interesting, with reference to the late discoveries of stone celts in 

 Central India, which formed the subject of a communication from 

 Mr. H. P. Lemesurier some time ago, to mention a very fine collec- 

 tion of celts which I saw in Java. 



The possessor was Mr. Kinder Van Camarecq, the Resident of the 

 province of Bagelen, in the south of the Island. His collection of 

 stone weapons numbered some 200 specimens, found in all parts of 



* The general period of the Javanese Buddhist temples as stated by Crawfurd 

 (Brambanan 1266-1296 ; Boro Bodor 1388) is not very different from that of 

 the great temples at, Pagan (1066-1200). 



f The r-oughness of the drawings supplied in illustration of this paper requires 

 apology. I have had to prepare them under a great pressure of other work, in 

 winding up my Indian service, and amid the duties of a laborious ofliee. 



