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Java, but Buddhism did not. # I do not take up more time with 
these, as there is a full description of them inserted in Baffles. 
The only other group of temples that I will notice is that called 
Chandi Setvu, or the Thousand Temples, also described in Baffles. The 
group consists of one large central cruciform temple, as usual, with 
three blind porches and a fourth on the east giving access to the 
interior. But this is surrounded by four successive squares of small 
cells or temples, the outer square of which is upwards of 500 feet in 
the side. Many of these small cells are obliterated, and without 
more time than I had it would be difficult to say accurately their 
original number. A plan however is given in Baffles, which shows 
that the inner square has 8 temples to the side, the next has 12, and 
the two outer squares 20 and 22 respectively. I note this, because 
I suppose its accuracy may be assumed, and because its discrepancy 
from my own notes shows how apt a hurried notice in such matters 
is to err, even when there is a desire to be accurate.t My notes men¬ 
tion only 3 squares, containing respectively 8, 12 and 24 temples to 
the side, and I took some pains to allow correctly, by pacing, for the 
intervals where numerous temples were obliterated. However, I am 
amused to find that a man who probably had no such plea of haste 
as I, and is an observer by profession, Dr. F. Junghuhn, the author 
of the chief physical account of Java, in a paper on the same subject 
as my own, declares that there are 176 in the 4 squares, respectively 
28, 36, 52, and 60. The whole number will be, acgording to Baffles’s 
plan, in the four squares 240, besides four pairs placed intermediately 
between the 2d and 3d squares and flanking the avenues of approach. 
The central temple is greatly shattered, and the image (a great 
Buddha 1 doubt not J) which it contained, is gone. It stands with 
its porches on a terrace slightly elevated. There are no figures 
* “Oil fut ainsipendant quatre-vingt-dix jours; alors on arriva a un royaume 
liomme Yepho-thi. Les heretiques et les Bralmianes y sont en grand nombre, ii n’y 
est pas question de la loi de Foe . 5 '—Relation des Royaumes Bouddhiques, 360. 
f I may apologize for such inaccuracy by the fact that 1 was only recovering 
from a long illness, and was incapable ol exertion in a hot sun. 
1 What Crawfurd says in speaking of this is misleading: “ Each of the 
smaller temples had contained a figure of Buddha, and the great central one, con¬ 
sisting of several apartments, figures of the principal objects of worship, which, 
in every case that I have had an opportunity of examining, have consisted of the 
destroying power of the Hindu triad or some of his family.” The central tem¬ 
ple of Chandi Sewu was empty then as it is now, and this merely states* a fore¬ 
gone (and I believe quite mistaken) conclusion. 
* Indian Archipelago, II. 19G. 
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