';^te central temple has no -ieisjt.hani^ empty niches ^£;\'arious iizes, 

 'but the principal iigure of ttw's building, was .pj^o.bablv a ;ri.gure, in high, 

 '-relief, on a large block of blriGX-4^-OQe,.fo,yn(d,. lying near tbe front of 

 ^the temple« I am at a lofs ,-|o-|>oint out what- Indian divinity, is in- 

 tended to be reprefantedby .ir^as the ufual en^bletns oltheJImdM, Gods 

 are 'not difcoverable on it. About a mile and a lialf to the eafl ward 

 of tbe thouf^nd ten^ples and clofe to the village of Pluqfan, from 

 .which they take their. modern name, I difcovered in the month c^' 

 April lafl, fevercl groups of .tempjes which had hitherto efcaped the 

 obfervation of our countrymen on^Java, andindeed I believe of all 

 .Europeans, The natjves difpky an;entirc apathy^on all rubje6is of this 

 .-nature and the difcovery of thefe ruins -on the preferit^occafion was 

 -purely jjccidental. The more northe-rn s group of the temples c^ 

 Huofan is an oblong fquarGc.meafuring 700 feet on -the eafl and well 

 £dt;s, and 000 to the .noo-th and fquth, ,The fmaller temples -have beca 

 all levelled to th^ ground in thisTguare., and in entering it, one perceives 

 ,in their room a mafs <3f ruins., imd rubbifh appearing here and there^ 

 above the lorjgrankgr^afs,: -Th^ fqu are appears originally to have, 'co5?*' 

 lained ihzl^ didinA-fets of -temples, each having a large centrical .^'O'He^ 

 furrounded by a row of ffnaller ones. Ti.ie middle anci rijore foialiueriy 

 -ofvtke cen.t.ral temples, are flill partiy^-llanding, though in a. !lat@' bf 

 . ruin;, ii'The middle temple contains two fanes, /one of which howevch, 

 is blocked ud with raallcs of flane and inaccefTible. The other cbtii- 

 tains on the fame platform or flielf, two line male flatues in a fitting 

 poflure, fide by (ide, and from the fimilarity of tiie fearurcs, and wnole 

 chcira8€T, evidendy intended to reprefent the fame divinity, which from 

 the. crefcent behind one of them, m<iy be pronounced to be Maha» 



■ DEVA. 



