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all its images, and in one only of the 212 fmaller temp'^. , is thoe a 

 figure remaining. This folifary figure is a fine flatue of BrojHAg 

 fitting crofslegged in the ufual manner and thus meafuring 3^' feet high 

 and 4|- round the waift, excluding the arms. Glofc by fonre of (he 

 other finaU temples a number of mutilated figures of Buddha are flil! 

 found, the pedcflals correfponding to which ftiU exifl, in the temple 

 themfelves, and I have litde doubt, but the whole of the fmaller templss 

 were flirines-Tof Buddha, . Mo ft of thcfe were occupied feemingly by 

 one image only, but others as may be fufpecled from the niches in the 

 walls Gontained. one or more fmall figuresj befides the greater one in 

 the body'-0£ the. temple-. .- 



The principal objC.8:s of v«)rfhrp were certainly in the greattemplej . 

 and from the analogy-of the other buildings, I have little doubt, but 



Mahadi^va OF his confort, and progeny in one characler or another 

 are the chief objects of worflaip* - 



The fhaps of the fmaller temples is peculiarly v/orthy of obferva- 

 tion. From the foundation -to the lintels of the doors, they are of a. 

 fquare form, they- then affume a-pyramid4, bat round (hape, and are 

 hi^re decorated around., by fmall figures .-refcmbling. Li??^^^, while a 

 larger Xt7?^<^ furmounts the whole building forming the aoex of the 

 ■ teinple. This firudu re was tolerably perfec5l in one -or two of the 

 •temples only, bat the materials of a fimilar aichiteclure^ might in ge- 

 neral^se traced in the. ruins of the reil^ 'Fhis-indeed in a few words 

 may be reckoneda dcfcription of the exterior of all the . temples of 



Thc< group of the {houfand temples like ail the' others was iur- 



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