556 . THE RUINS OF TRAMBANAm 



Ih^r^iif no doubt, but the building when complete had an upper flbor, 

 arid we may conjeclure from the ab fence of ftone beams, or any relic 

 or fragmciaU of them,, that thi^ portion of the building was of wpod. 



In the walls in all diredions there are raaoy niches, no doubt as in the 

 other ruins intended for the reception of images, from which circum- 

 ftancej as well as the easily and luxuriant decorations on the exterior 

 wall's, thepe can be little hefitation in concluding that this building was 

 a place pf. religious worfhipj and not as fouie have conje(^ured a dwel- 

 linor houfco 



Tii ERE is as already mentioned a profuiibn of fculptures on the ex^ 

 terior walls, which as in the other buildings, confist of full length 

 figures msie and female in relief, flowers and other ornaments, of which 

 it is unnecelTary now to offer any account as they will be included in 

 the general defcription of the prevailing decorations of the temples to- 

 be afterwards given. Such is a brief document of the principal re- 

 mains at Prambanan : the extenfive and fertile valley in which they liCj 

 contains a number of inferior relics conneded with the fame worfhip, 

 which it would be too tedious to enumerate, and I have therefore cir»- 

 cumfcribed my fubje£l within the narrowest limits. 



This particular^ part of the iO^nd has justly been a favourite feat of 

 Hinduism,a.nd among the modern names of places we can still trace, as 

 m many other parts of the ifland, the clafTic names of Indian story. I 

 fhall give but one example. The town which the Z)24ir^h^ve corrupted 

 ixiio Dyoyocaria is the indian Ayodtfat the country o£ Rama Chandra i 

 the place before it became in the year 1761, the refidence of the fuccefsful 

 rebel MANCy Bumi, was called Ayugya (a corruption of ^o^y^ origioat- 

 ing in the peculiar enunciation of the Jfavanefe) which he changed 

 ii^t© the compound i^yugyacarta^ written from the impcFfefiion of the 



