TO THE COURT OF AVA. 393 
by a court paved with large sandstone flags, 
and enclosed by a brick wall. At each corner 
of the area there is a large and handsome bell 
with an inscription. To the eastern face of 
the temple there are two open wooden sheds, 
each supported by thirty-eight pillars. These 
were among the richest things of the kind 
that I had seen in the country. The pillars, the 
carved work, the ceiling, the eaves, and a great 
part of the outer roof, were one blaze of gilding. 
In one of them only there was a good marble 
image of Gautama, of which the annexed plate 
is a faithful representation. Buildings of this 
description are called by the Burmans Za-yat, 
or, in more correct orthography, Ja-rat. Some 
of these are attached to temples, but others are 
on the public road. Their purpose is both civil 
and religious. They constitute a kind of cara¬ 
van seras, where travellers repose themselves. 
Votaries who repair to the temple to perform 
their devotions, use them as resting-places and 
refectories ; and it is from them that the priests 
deliver their orations or discourses. On the west 
side of the temple there is a long, rudely con¬ 
structed wooden shed, where are deposited the 
offerings made by the King and his family to 
the temple. These consist of two objects only, 
state palanquins and figures of elephants. The 
