TOUR FROM SOURABAYA, THROUGH KEDIRT, &C. 24'5 
and form ; but the characters have suffered much from 
time/’ 
We have now taken a review of the whole of the group of 
ruins, which are still surrounded by a dense forest, and which 
may still conceal unknown treasures of art. The soil is rich and 
the Areca palm trees frequent in the thickets around. Only 
two small hovels exist at hand, located on the stream of water, 
which we crossed after leaving the carriage, but should po¬ 
pulation encrease sufficiently, they would soon be able to 
convert these softy undulating and rising grounds into fertile 
plains of cultivation. 
From the numerous traces of antiquity scattered over this 
part of the country, there can be no doubt that at some period 
it has supported both a numerous and intelligent race of 
people, but the remembrance of them has melted into the 
dimness of remote ages, and now only a few vague names are 
preserved. Our attendants, at the head of whom was the 
Widono of the district, Kromo Laksono, informed us that 
Panataran was built by order of a chief call’d Kendam Su~ 
moro Dono, assisted by his younger brother Kudo Cbepoko, 
and they even mentioned, though with evident diffidence, that 
these were the children of Dewa Kasuma. According to the 
most circumstantial of the accounts given by Raffles, this 
D ewa Kasuma appears to have flourished in the tenth century 
of the Christian era. He sent his children to the continent 
of India to be instructed in the religion of Braraa, from 
whence the eldest returned married to the daughter of one of 
the greatest princes of that country, and was attended by 
able artists of different professions and troops for a body 
guard. These were the parents of the celebrated Paiijh 
Panji’s father succeeded to the government of Janggala, but 
Kediri became the inheritance of another brother, whose 
beautiful daughter the princess Chandra Kirana (moon-beam) 
Panji subsequently married. 
It has been above stated that the inscription of a date is 
seen over the doorway of the small detached stone chandi or 
temple, which only of all the group has an interior cell or 
chamber. This inscription is cut in relief as well as the 
edging round it, and flower-like ornament, at beginning and 
end.* 
It in all probability represents either 1241 or 1281, a slight 
discrepancy of small import, in determining the antiquity of 
* The author here gives a copy of the inscription, and with a view to deter¬ 
mine the date, compares it with six other inscriptions which be elfo gives. 
We shall insert this portion of the paper with lithographs of the inscriptions as 
a note—at the end. 
