xnm TiIE RUINS OF FEAMBANAN 



le veflige's of which may ilill be traced. Tq tlic 

 : / -qL.. .- re four ditlin£l gates or entrances, one on each 

 .. of--^li«;l?|tiy? nd facing the cardinafl' |^oints of the compafe, 

 *.. v,c4watui theie-enxranc^!?, are two<;ig:?ntic flatues, feemingiv in the 

 charaficrs of warders. TheCc are in fhe po'fture of kne^iing-on one 

 knee, and in this attitude are in heighth, cxclaHvc of tke ' pedeflak, 

 which are a foot and a half high, fevenTeet anti eig^ht inches, and tnea- 

 fure round the body including the arms n feet. The 'Jnvanefi term 

 all thofe figures, which are frequent thTOughont the Ifiand, Gcpdla, and 

 I had hence at linl imsgined rhem'to'be'Teprefenfations'of Cris^^n^a^ of 

 whom this is one of the titles, but their occapatioirs, the ahfen'GC of a 

 crown or ornbrella, or other nnark of royalty, render the conj- dur^e 

 itiadmiffible, and the perpe4:ual prefecoe -©f D-hefnal&e $3 Hiorc proba- 

 bly intended to characterise the. xeligiGn'Of^/^'tj. 



OuiTTiNG the " thouTand temples" and retumirrg agarinin a-foolhcF- 



ly diredion we meet a finglc unconneded temple wiiich the Javane/t 



"tail, for ! know not what reason, Chan'di Jfak:'or the 'temple ''-of the 



doer, ^t is 'a.fnapelefs ruin difplaying 'nothing fcmarkab-ie, the top 



isopenand dfiplnys to the oblerver the inikic-of Ihe biiilding, de^i- 



lure of image or fculptures: proceeding ftili' farther inthefame direc- 



' tion. bat not in aR above 300 yards^Vom the ^thousand templeG', v.^e 



' come to a fmaH group, whidh contains about 15 temples including 



one large central one. Thefe arc of the fame py rami dais .'form, 



•-^nd diff-:r only, in 'being lefc-ofr.apien ted with fculptures. ' The 



;€n^rance into this is by a Gngie gate to ithe eaftern fide, guarded 



?bv two warders of the fame charafter with thofe already dcfcribed, 



but or inferior fize. All the temples of this group, have been pillac^ed 



.431' tlieJT imager but a fingie -mutilated figure -of Buddha, clofe 



/ecrned ^to indicate what the contents of the fmaller temples had I :er<» 



