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Ancient Javanese Remains. 
[No. 1, 
Besides these figures, both the base of the superstructure and the 
walls of the basement terrace are abundantly sculptured with fantastic 
subjects. The former is formed into panels of scroll work, the 
centre of each being a different animal, including the elephant, 
parrot, braminee goose, stork, deer, buffalo, &c. In the latter, the 
patterns are alternately of scroll and diaper (See Fig. 3.) The sides 
of the staircase have been sculptured more rudely with scenes of 
domestic life, the chase, and other incidents. One of them quaintly 
represents the old fable of a tortoise carried through the air by two 
wild geese. In the porch adjoining the entrance, on each side are 
corresponding groups, one of a man with the brahminical thread, the 
other of a woman with a child, each surrounded by boys engaged 
in gathering fruit which others shake down from the trees overhead. 
Above these are rows of female figures kneeling towards the shrine, 
and presenting offerings. 
Passing from Mundot about miles to the N. W. across the 
river Progo, and noting by the road side a small ancient temple of 
the same character, which has been caught in the embrace of a large 
cotton-tree, and is being gradually upheaved by its roots and buttress¬ 
es, we came in sight of Boro Bodor rising like a half-finished 
pyramid on the top of a hill about 130 or 140 feet high, and backed 
by the roots of the great Sumbing, which was itself (alas) invisible, 
excepting now and then when for a few moments his vast cone peeped 
forth above the clouds and 11,021 feet above the sea. 
A good carriage drive ascends the hill to the base of the building, 
and passes beyond it to a spacious bungalow or rest-house shaded by 
a grove of trees. Scattered and fallen sculptured stones and Bud¬ 
dhas have been gathered together and ranged along the avenues of 
approach. Evidently now there is no neglect of this singular and 
magnificent monument. But no efforts, I fear, can prevent its decay 
from proceeding with accelerated speed. 
It is scarcely possible to find a point of view from which a sketch 
would give a true idea of this structure, and the best notion of it is 
to be got from the plates in Baffles and Crawfurd. Indeed the first 
near view of Boro Bodor is disappointing. It appears to be far more 
ruined than it was in the days when Baffles described it, and at first 
sight it seems little better than a vast and shapeless cairn of stones, 
with here and there a dome and pinnacle discernible. 
