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■ called fa, krtabe .difcovcred on • all. the imoft-perFe^l HinBu,,^j;^p\eg<on 

 Hhe^iilaRd, ^andiis :partiGulai?ly f^requent >^on ^the ;]great temple ^st ^'Bom 

 jJBodor, It is ^remarkabls that4he •prefent.TaGe^of..y<2z/i2M^y ;paitiGukr]y 

 ; thbfe.of the eafternend.0f-thE'inain!d where Hinduifm is knowa Mohave 

 silourilhed moll, before its extin&ion, wear this moadrous faee'^eri their 

 •crifies. It is ftili morefrequent- with the Hindus of Bali and fLomboc^^ 

 ^who are worihippers of Siva : it iS: generally a moveable piece of gold 

 i.iixed to the upper: part of the. fcabbard on, which the ngure is embo'frcd, 



aiid -which ' differs nn ' no manner from -thofe delineated 'on -the 

 ^'temples. The ambalTadors of the Raja of Zo;72^(?^- informed rne, that 



'the face was a reprefentation -of Siva, I may remartk that 'i found 

 t.:it delineated on one of the^fiKefl .figures of the I'ont-at Pr^zy^^^./nzi^f 

 • and -its being difcoveTed^io^a Situation To decidedly identi&ed ■m'\\h 

 ■the v/orfhip ofMA^AD-ivA, may be adduced in, c-onfirraati^fj ofthc 



opinion that it .is - intended to rcprefent .Uais- Go^So; 



THTmofi: frequetitorniiment on the buildings is the Zo^(7j, It is in- 

 <leed almod univerfal on all the Mniw teli.cs on the ilianfi The 

 ordinary figures on the 0uter fide of the walls of Ihe temples are 

 •never without a plant of it, and even the 'deities themftlves^^of ^alT de- 

 fcriptior.^s are generally feulptureH -with it. In the Itatues whietlier ox 

 brafo or ftone, found thxoughout the ifland, -the pedeflal very ufually 

 CGniitls df the expanded cahx of a L&tos, and the female figures m" paT« 

 ticuhr are pjsrpetually attended by it, I fuiipofe the Lot'^s to l^e here 

 an emblem of Parwati who as well a.? Siii I find, his the epithet ot 

 Padmi in the nomenclature of the god-5. jT'his I infer however, only 

 from the fuppoficion already fo often made of their temples l^eing 

 peculiarly dedicated to the worfhip of Siva, This may probably be 

 conlidered as in.fome degree corroborated by the circum fiance of 

 the calix of a Leto;, being frequently fubfiituted for the Yonu 



