42 The Remains at Pagdn. [No.; 1. 



Mr. Eergusson, with that very common form of doorway at 

 Pagan, of which an elevation is shewn in Pi. IV. Pig. 10. The 

 same feature is seen in the Assam column figured by Capt. 

 Dalton, and is found on a large scale in the temples of Java (see 

 Baffles, vol. II.) 



The remaining figures in the plate of analogies have been brought 

 together for the sake of less defined resemblances of character. 

 Enough, however, has been made out, I think, to shew that all, or 

 nearly all the details of work at Pagan must have had an Indian 

 origin. But this is far from removing the perplexity connected with 

 the origin of these buildings. Grant that all details were borrowed 

 from India. But where shall we find in India any model of the 

 composition ? where anything approaching the classical beauty of 

 the Sem-byo-ku, or the stupendous architectural majesty of the 

 Thapinyu and the Ananda ? # 



The Burman, rejecting indeed, in the pride of his philosophy, 

 the idea of an Eternal Divinity, but recognizing the eternal sanc- 

 tities of nature and conscience, has reared nobler fanes and far 

 more worthy to become the temples of the true God than the 

 Hindu with his deities so numerous and impure. 



I have said above, that nearly all the details at Pagan must have 

 had an Indian origin. But this does not apply to construction. 

 The arches and vaults, which are such marked features in the Pagan 

 temples, are quite unknown to ancient Hindu architecture. " As 

 far as my own knowledge and researches go ," says Mr. Eergusson, 

 "I am certain that I have never been able to detect any trace of 

 an arch in any ancient (Indian) building." {Ancient Archit. of 

 Hindoostan, p. 12.) 



Having no more to say on the general subject of this architecture, 

 I have still to offer a few notices of remarkable temples not yet 

 described in this Eeport. 



* Perhaps the nearest analogy in general form is to be founded in the rock-cut 

 Baths (as they are called) of Mahabalipurain near Sadras. 



There is also something, suggestive of the Pagan style in the general arrange- 

 ment of the great Javanese temples described by Raffles, (including the pecu- 

 liarity of the cruciform plan,) as well as in some of the details which I have 

 already noticed. 



