THE RUINS OF PRAMBANAN 



'IN JAVA, 



By JOHN CRAWFUKD, Esa: 



3 ■e£fiSl>BBB0iBi 



HAVE the pleafure to prefent the Afiatic Society wiih an atcourrt 

 of the Hindu ruins of Pramhanan on Java* A refidence of fever^l 

 years in the vicinity of this place afforded me many opportunities of 

 infpedion and enquiry of which if I have availed myfelf with any 

 ikill, I may hope that my narrative may compenfate hj its accuracy 

 for its deficiency in learning. 



The principal' rains of frmtibanan, '^ as the name is wrritt^n and 

 pronounced by the prefent inhabitants of the ifland, are fituated about 

 10 EngUJh miles from Gugyacarta, the refidence of theSultan of Java, 



and about'3o 'from Suracarta the refidence of the Siifuhunan, 



Tee high read which runs in a direSion nearly eaft and weft, bc« 

 tweenthefe places^ palles through the ruins, 



' By far the greater part of the ruins ar& in the difl;ri61; of Pajair and 

 the reft in the dillridl of Matavam where it joins the formero The 

 count'ry about Prambanan is a portion of an extenfive valley, laying 

 between the mountains of Rabah.i and Mdrapi to the north, -and an 

 humbler range to the fouth called from its fituation, near the Ibuth 



* As P. and B. uioin luost languages and {>;;rticu'aily in those of (he /«J/flrt Islauds, mutually 

 couTerlible iuto each other, md tlie middle B. seems inserted to obviate a tialiis. Pramhanan 

 ^robslfcly ibennrtlie place of brahininsy agrtoable to the mode of formiug such uouns iu Javanese, 



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