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t^te tWe.naliv-es of Java, were not the builderg of P/amhanan, or 

 imibr Oructyrcs, I would ojbferve tha« in a period of 338 years, 

 \A'b;Ch h,3^ CilapCed, ftnee their xoaverfion to Mahorfiedajiifm, during' 

 which t iey have been, m matters of this nature nearly left to thcrr?- 

 fclves, they have not conflructcd a fmgle building, that can be com- 

 pared with even the rudeft of fciie Hindu kmples, and their 

 ♦inofques of the carlieS: and lateft perieds, ape mean and pahry wood- 

 en fabrics, utterly unworthy of any .Rolicco 



The country of the founders oF Tramhanan, and of aH oihers, 

 who propagated Hindwfm on Java, is certainly the kingdom of 

 'Welingn on the peninfula of India or Vaiin, ns it is univerfally \trit« 

 ien, and pronou raced in Jdva, and every other country of the archi» 

 ^elago2 ihis is the only country of Jndia, known to the yananefe, by 

 4ts proper name, the only ®ne faniihar to thsm, and the only one tif 

 Avhiqh mention is made in their books. Henc^ th-y defignate all 

 Jndia by thi« name, and know it by no other, except indeed, when 

 iby an cxcufaUle vanjty,-they would-infer the equality of their ifiand^ 

 vWith that great continent and fpeak ©f them relatively as the countries 

 on this, or on that fide of the water, common modes of exprellion. 

 It may be farther ftated, that jfavane/e tradition, invariably afcribes 

 the introdu6lion o( Hindutfm, to the natives oT 'Telinga. The princi- 

 pal native intercourfe between India, and Jaua, as well c^s the other 

 iflands, down to the prcfent, is from the fame countries. That theia- 

 tcrcourfe was at all events, with the countries 013 the eajlern Goafl of 

 the peninfula of India, may be inferred by the ftriking agreement 

 between certain remains of the ancient inftitutions of Javj, and thofe 

 'peculiar to the Indian countries in queflion. The moll remarkable 

 -example is afforded in ifcc ^calendar (*.) the jera of Salivana, which 

 •is that, whicl> cxilled on Java^ is in India, 1 believe nearly covS}ntdi 



,4*) Tbis renonBtd fcnouv^t ia vukoswa io tUe -iQiiion islands bv ihe untae ol SaUoana, (b» 



