25 

 3 

 1 



8 



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106 DIMENSIONS OF STATUE. 



forbid the approach of an intruder. They had each a 

 kind of crown on the head, the eyeballs protruded as 

 if in anger, the brow was corrugated, and a large tusk 

 proceeded downwards from each side of the mouth. 

 The dimensions of the male figure were as follow : — 



Height from the ground to the top of the head . 12 feet. 

 Circumference round the waist, including the knee, 



which was pressed against it 

 Length of the face 

 Ditto the nose 



Width across the back of the shoulders 

 Width of the left hand across the knuckles 

 Length of the right hand, which was raised, from the 



wrist to tip of middle finger . . 2f 



They were each cut out of one solid block of 

 stone, hard but rather brittle, a close-grained grey 

 porphyritic trachyte. They were carefully and ad- 

 mirably executed, smoothly and clearly cut, and the 

 folds of the skin well represented. The VVidono 

 called them Rajah Puteh, or Chunkoop Rajah Pu- 

 teh. On the grass round about, rudely arranged, 

 apparently as they had been discovered, were many 

 fragments of sculpture and statuary, more or less 

 perfectly preserved, but all admirably executed. 

 There was a beautiful Brahmin bull lying down, 

 about four feet long ; human figures with elephants' 

 heads ; a fragment of a chariot drawn by several 

 horses abreast, admirably sculptured ; and many 

 figures of Hindoo deities, with three or four heads 

 and several pairs of arms. They seemed all to be 

 cut from nearly the same kind of stone as that before 



