360 THE RUINS Of PRAMBANJ.N 



Small %u res in brafs and fione with the Ckanc md Lotos^^sim. 

 very frequent on Jam , v^hich I {houldhzYe concluded to. have 

 been Lacshmi, but; a5< Vishnu; himfelf, ©-k'- his Jvaiars 2ltq fo 

 feldom nilt withj and asi have I. thii>k. never feen the Ghacra 

 accompanying any image whatever^ 1 rauft rather confider figures 

 f0 decorated/ as formsof the confort of Sivao The prevalence 

 af vegetable decorations .throughout the temples o[ Prambanan, can- 

 ■■li^ot,' but attract notice, l^-his- I thinL., may be fairly,.- aferibed, to 

 the principles of the followers of BtJDDAH, who profefs to abhor the 

 fpilUng of blood. It would be endiefs to recount the varieties of thefe i 

 the greater number howeverj^ feem rather the productions of iruagina° 

 tipn, than, of -nature* . 



The outer fides of the walk con list ufually' 'of large comparfc-^ 

 iriientSs, fub-divided by . fculptured pila (la rs: .thefe are generally • fur^ 

 rounded,, by, borders, pf„- flowers, or fanciful , ornaments,- while -the 

 interior is- occupied- by .figures of .trees and plants, of animals, or of 

 both, A bird, of the parrot- kind appearing in the- folds of a ,fcfloon 

 of flowers,, is a very common border, both in the ruins,: of, Pram» 

 hgnan^ and Boro .Bodor» 



A'N-iM.ALsare not frequent oo iht luins oi Frambdnan^ but they do occur.r 

 iometimes : the laoft ufualare the lion, ^ndthe elephanf^ animals that are 

 not natives of Jaza. It may be offered indeed as a ..general rcmarkythaS ■ 

 the animals ; and;. plants, as well .as ..the human figures delineated, are 

 all,, .of thesax- foreign to the iflandi -Groups, or hiilorical reprcfenta«= 

 tions, which abound fo much 2X.Bor.o-Bodor.i , are feldom to be. feen .a£- 

 Tramhaaan* I can (late but one exception, whichis a,reprelenlat3on of - 

 the warlike apes oFRam-Aj upon fome loofe ftones which cannot at 

 piefen.t^ bs traced to She. teiBpks i;o which they originally belonged. 



