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Ancient Javanese Remains. 
[No. 1, 
Notes of a brief visit to some of the Indian remains in Java.—Rij 
Lieut.-Colonel Henry Yule, Bengal Engineers. 
It is not likely that much of what I have to say on this subject 
has not already been told. But these rerhains are now seldom visit¬ 
ed by travellers from India ; the accounts of them are probably not 
familiar; and they are surrounded with such deep interest to all who 
care for Indian antiquity, that I trust my brief account will not be 
regarded as superfluous. 
It is well known that the central and eastern portions of Java 
abound with remains of unquestionable Indian origin, both Buddhistic 
and Brahminical, uniting with the evidence of language and literature 
in testifying to an extensive intercourse between the countries, of 
which nothing like real history remains. The accounts of these 
ruins by Raffles and Crawfurd had long ago excited my curiosity, and 
the opportunity I enjoyed some years ago of exploring analogous 
remains in Burma had converted this into a deeper and more intelli¬ 
gent interest. When therefore in September 1860 I found myself 
obliged to take a sea voyage, the chance of seeing with my own eyes 
these mysterious remains not a little influenced me in directing my 
course to Java. 
The localities visited were Boro Bodor and its vicinity in the valley 
of Kadu, a very garden of cultivation even in that pearl of islands, 
and Brambanan on the borders of the two still quasi-independent 
states of Solo and Djokjokarta. 
My companion in these visits was Dr. Macpherson of the Madras 
Army, whose praiseworthy exertions in the exploration of primeval 
antiquities at Kertch during the Crimean war are well known. In 
our visit to Boro Bodor, we had the advantage of the company of 
Mr. Elliott Martin, an English gentleman long resident as a planter 
in the interior of Java. Boro Bodor we visited from Mao-elansr, the 
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“ Sucldur station,” as we should call it, of the Kadu district, from 
which it is thirteen miles distant. 
Our first object was the temple of Mundbt, about 3 miles from 
the greater monument, Boro, Bodor. 
This temple was not known to Raffles and Crawfurd, and possibly 
has not been described in any English book. Nothing but a tumulus 
