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Ancient Javanese Remains. 
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not less I think than 11 feet in height, is a nearly naked Buddha, 
exceedingly well sculptured, seated in an attitude of demonstration 
or teaching ex cathedra (Fig. 2.) This has originally occupied an 
elevated place opposite the entrance, but it has fallen and now leans 
slanting against the wall. On either side sits, still enthroned, a mild¬ 
faced male figure of somewhat smaller size, crowned and jewelled, 
and having the hands also raised as if in conversational action. 
These did not appear to represent any Hindu gods, and were with¬ 
out monstrosities or emblems. # There are also six highly sculptured 
niches in the walls, such as usually contain crossed-legged Buddhas, 
but empty. 
There is then, in the interior, nothing inconsistent with pure Bud¬ 
dhism. But the exterior on each side is sculptured in relief with figures 
which are undoubtedly those of Hindu divinities,with their attendants ; 
an 8-armed goddess on one side, Parvati, I believe ; 4-armed gods on the 
other two. The whole contour of the figures, and that peculiar sway of 
the hips in the standing attendants, which we still see in coarse modern 
Indian sculpture, is purely Hindu. Parts of the pilasters or styles 
of the panels containing these relievos are richly carved in scrolls, 
not unlike those on the well-known beautiful arcades of the great 
mosque at the Kootub. There can be little doubt that these relievos 
and all the surface ornaments were sculptured after the erection of 
the masomy, as M r. Crawfurd has observed in regard to some others 
of the Javanese temples. I have lately seen this fashion of working 
very clearly exemplified in the ancient tope of Sarnath near Benares, 
where you may see the rich ornamentation of the surface in parts 
left unfinished, and in parts just etched out to guide the carver. But 
still I think undoubtedly these relievos must have been part of the 
original design, and I do not mention the circumstance as elucidating 
the combination of Brahminism and Buddhism. I believe this 
mixture is found in some of the caves of western India. In Ceylon 
the temples of the Hindu divinities are constantly found immediately 
adjoining the Buddhist pagodas, and though such a combination is 
totally strange to modern Burma, we found one very old temple at 
Pagan which exhibited Hindu divinities in panels on the exterior.f 
* May they be Dharma and Sanga, the law and the church, the two other 
objects of Buddhist reverence? 
t See a note by Col. Pliayre in “ Mission to Ava,”—p. 53. 
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