•'^50, 'THE, RVim OF m.A MBANAPf- 



Boco, («) The^real figure of this raizi, which appears from the rankneB 

 of the vegetation under conimon circumftancr.*; a .mafs of inextricaible 

 confufion, was^ diainai/ afcertaioed by burning 'a-ndvdeftroying the 

 grafs and trees. It proved to be a fquare terrace conflrr5a:cd of hugs 

 blocks of hewn ftone, meafuriag 6S feet to a fide, a d being I-out feet 

 high. This.terrace is forroundedafeth® dil^-ance of' 14 feet, by a waM 

 afcertained from a fmall portkjn of it, yet nearly perfedl, to have becii 

 11 feet high. In this there are four doors, which I found by a mari^ 

 ner's compafs to>faee the cardinal points : I may here obferve, that as. 

 this appears to have been a« objed aimed at,'throiighout the v/hole of 

 the buildingSj it would be a curious point to determine with what de* 

 gree of precifion the objea has been attained, as from this, the (kill 

 of the-artilh and the nature of the inftrumeots which they employed; 

 might be aicertainedi On the top of the terrace in- two fituations; 

 sre ifsen fome lofe blocks of flone which appear to have conditutcd 

 the elevated foundation of the ibeds, which the Jdvanefel believe in 

 imitation of the Eindus, term Pandapa or Mandapa^/it- i& in fuch fituati* 

 ons as thefe, that the modern princes take their feat on public occaii* 

 ons, and to judge from this as well as from the refemblance of the ter- 

 race itfelfj to thofe of a modern palace called the Sitingil, (f ) I have no 

 hefitation in afl'enting to the common tradition that thsprefent ruin 

 was really a palace. Dr. TviLEit who aGCon3p;anied me in one of my 

 laJl excurfiODS to Fr^wto^w, difcovered in the iargeflof the- tv/o pil- 

 lars of ftone on the terrace^ a fragment of a il^b of ilone on which 

 was 2L De'va Nagari infcriptioo, and. a little way. to thefouth of the 

 huilding a, mutilated ftone figure, which I imagine to repref^^nt Mahd. 

 Diva dciimY'mg Tripurafuru. The infcription, the image, the nature 

 of the materials and the charaaer. of the ardiiteduie, Teem diain6iy> 

 to identify thefe buildings with the ruins on the plain. 



* Craton, is a dieri?atii?e ficoai Raxu, a kiBg or sovereJ^a priuaeo 

 i, Siimgil lUer&'Sy high ground or laade.. 



