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RUINED' TEMPLES. 



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iimny of wliich still remain entire. At Chandi Sewa, oi 

 the "Thousand Temples," are many fine colossal figures. 

 Captain Baker, who surveyed these ruins, said he had 

 never in liis life seen "such stupendous and finished 

 specimens of human labour, and of the science and taste 

 of ages long since forgot, crowded together in so small 

 a compass as in this spot." They cover a space of nearly 

 six hundred feet square, and consist of an outer row of 

 eighty-four small temples, a second row of seven ty-sLx, a 

 third of sixty-four, a fourth of forty-four, and the fifth 

 forming an inner parallelogram of twenty-eight, in all 

 two hundred and ninety-six small temples j disposed in 

 I've regular parallelograms. In the centre is a large 

 cnicilbrm temple suiTounrled by lofty flights of steps 

 richly ornamented with sculpture, and containing many 

 apartments. The tropical vegetation has ruined most of 

 the smaller temples, but some remain tolerably perfect, 

 irom which the effect of the whole may be imagined. 



About half a mile off is another temple, called Chandi 

 Kali Bening, seventy-two feet square and sixty feet high, 

 in ver>' fine preservation, and covered with sculptui^es of 

 Hindoo mythology surpassing any that exist in India. 

 Other niins of palaces, halls, and temples, with abundance 

 of sculptured deities, are found in the same neighbour- 

 Iiood. 



BaROBODO. — About eight)'' miles westward, in the pro- 

 vince of Kedu, is the great temple of Fiorobodo. It is built 

 upon a small hill, and consists of a central dome and seven 

 ranges of ten-aced walls covering the slope of the bill and 

 forming open galleries each below the other, and com- 

 mmiicating by steps and gateways. The central dome is 

 fifty feet in diameter ; around it is a triple circle of seventy- 

 two towers, and the whole iinilding is six lumdrcd and 

 twentj' feet square, and about one hundred feet high. In 

 the terrace walls are niches containing cross-legged figures 

 larger than life to the number of about four hundred, and 

 both sides of all the terrace walls are covered with bas- 

 reliefs crowded with figures^ and carved in hard stone ; 

 and which must therefore occupy ati extent of nearly 

 three miles in length ! The amount of human labour and 

 skill expended on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sinks into 



