.■-::1 RUINS OF- PEAMBANAN 



r:r-:r.!:-,c-:a ':^ ■ ' ordcvs ol th^ pcQ^lc^ ioiHis ldighn€;h(kt Smij'' 



.iUVt.'.M abofit a../ ago when meditating^- a^mbitiojis fchemes :©f- no 



cominou\^^^^:;j,miid& o^crmgs to this Tame image.of Durga, perhaps^ 



'ho «vr'\ nqre pai^icularly induced to propitiate a Hindu diy inky ..on 



'Mi o^ccation ixom-, ihe . nature of t^e mnmtllQn he has SmcQ --feeen 



l.iiOw,n to have formsd. 



* , In anorlhcTlf dir-e^Fon- from this group, and a:botEt half a mile dir« 

 imt from ir, is -the :■ riUmerous group called •(*) €handi Se'wa, or -the 

 t^onfand temples, fo denominated, not from their preeife number, but 

 in, compliance with an idiom of the ^(2t/^?i^jf^ language which applies 



tliis numeral in a loole way to any large aHeKublage of objedls crouded 

 together, of which, there is another example , in -the fouthera ^ range of 



■inpni}tdiins oppofite, which in one fituation take from their -appearance 

 tfiejagie of, <9|i?i/^?/?2,^^.w<3.pj: thQisfan4 hills. 



The .group of Chandi Sewa is a fquare building of a liEiiiar-cbaTac* 

 •ier with the laft, but in fome refpects in a much better (late cof prefer- 

 ¥ati4)o. The northern and Southern' fides -of the f-q^uare-Miieafure '600 



Mnglijh feet, and the eafU'rn and western .550. 



This large group coniists of four rows of fmall pyramidal buildingSj ' 

 having one great temple in the centre. The aftual number of the 

 temples is no lefs than 213 -, the outer row containing ^8 the fecond^S, 

 the third which is feparated by a coniiderable interval from the" two 



fir ft-44, and iVie fourth 28. .Between this laft and - the ■ great central 

 temple, there are the remains of a wide trench. ''The great central tem- 

 ple, which is probably not lefs than.6o feet high, has been defpoikd of 



^ * Chandi means a spire, not a /emple for vfhicb tiie woid is S.angar^ Lul the foruiei is iu ».;•'- 

 4eiQ language always applied to Uindu rajna. 



