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93 feet by 36. None of them had friezes, but there 

 were carved ornamental markings along the sides, 

 and many niches and pedestals for statues, and some 

 alto-relievo figures. 



Two of the other buildings we called tombs, but 

 very likely were quite incorrect in doing so. They 

 were similar to the temples in style, but much 

 smaller, square at the base, rapidly diminishing in 

 stories upwards, and then bulging out again in over- 

 hanging steps or ledges. One of them was crowned 

 with the base of a ruined circular erection, perhaps 

 a dome, or cupola. This the Widono called Chun- 

 koop Wyang,* the others Chunkoop Putri. The 

 sixth building we could not make out at the time, 

 as it consisted merely of two solid blocks of half- 

 ruined masonry ; I believe, however, it was part of 

 a gateway, probably that of the enclosure in which 

 the temples stood.t On each side of it was a 

 gigantic figure, one male, the other female, of very 

 corpulent proportions and fierce aspect, scantily 

 clothed, and each wreathed round by a huge serpent ; 

 they knelt on one knee, with the other pressed 

 against the breast and body, leaning by one hand on 

 a great club with a square head, much carved. The 

 male figure had the right hand raised and turned 

 outwards with two or three fingers erect, as if to 



* Perhaps Biyang. Biyang and Putri, in the ceremonial Ja- 

 vanese, mean mother and child. 



See Crawfurd's description of the ruins of Brambanan, 

 vol. 2, page 196. 



