rich cluster of beads. Two stones-are sculptured in relief with tlie figures of
seven apes traversing a wood:'they are each about two feet six inches high
•by two feet Wide. Thèse piedes are more damaged by time and weather than
any others I met with* àhd péfhâps more ancient. They appear to be
entirely historical,; and probably formed together the memorial of some
"legendary event, Which the learning of my Brahmin did not reach 'fee
deemed 'however positive that Harnmân was not of the number. The
Ishield occurs twice, a reptile of the lizard kind led by a string once, and
all the figures appear ahned with sticks.
The only other piece of sculpture found here is of a headless naked
figure, sitting on a ' double throne, surrounded with foliage, opposite the
Banddran at the corner of a field. The journal of Colonel Mackenzie,
Which had previously appeared in the Transactions of the BataviamSociety,
had sd fully persuaded me that all these rude figures in a sitting cross-
‘feg&ed pésfcure were Jain ov Biidhist, that I by accident only asked my
eompanion if he knew what this was ? To my astonishment he replied, that
this, with-iffi-utfaer similar images, were iwpis'wwrri, or Hindus in the
act of devotion, and that this'figure was evidently a Brahmin ^from- the
sacrificial or saCred String over his 'left-shoulder) employed xntvpisya. :T
asked him whether -it might' be Budk ? to which fee--rejfiiéd,'iNo ; -that
Bwdh held a very low rank rin,’theyfistimatiorr ©fthe Brahmins, who, in
consequence of the -schism between Brahmins'and1 Büdhists, did not choose
to make tupisya before him, -or erect his1 hkhness in' their 'temples1; and
fbât, as all the temples at Brambdnan -Were "Ssfehtlfely • BramimcUl,'_of 'had
their origin-•-from the sanie aeet'of which he himself was a rrierribèrj it
was not likely that any images ‘of Budh± should 'be found thereabouts.
When we^afterwards eame-^b examine thé templês ’ at Bora Jbngran- an’d
otlier plaees, where-the same figure complete appears seated-in the small
temples, surrounding the great - central one, I pointed out to1 him the
long-extended ears, short- curled head o f -hair, and other marks, -which’T
had understood served to • distinguish the Jain," o r Budh images, from all
Others. He said he was only more convinced'that 'they were all simple
Hindu devotees in the act of making tujAsga, in the presence of the principal
deity enthroned in the grand temple in-the midst of them j that this
was frequently thie-case in India, and wherever practicable the Brahmins
placed imagés- of devotees, of exactly similar form and attitude, around
the fanes of Brahma and their inferior gods ; that what I called curled
hair
hair was nothing more thkn-a peculiar kind of cap (topi he called it) worn
by devotees when in ., the most sacrèd acts of tupisya, ■ which caps are com-
mom. he said, throughout Bengal or Hindustan, and are made for the
purpose,- b'y.-a particular class of people. I -found the lower part of two
counterpart decorated' stones, -having-the part pf the body of Qanésa in
th'e.fientre ;of eaoh. They were extremely well executed and m good preservation.
.
LORo I ^ G R A N G ^ or TEMPLES OF LÓRO JÓNGRAN.
' These '*lie fiireqtly, ip (front (uoifh) of jthe village of Brambdmn, and
about S h u n M , and .fifty, yards from the road, whence they are visible,
in the-form of large hillocks, of f^l.en masses of stone, surmounted»
and in somefingtanges coyer,e.d,. with, a profusion of trees and herbage©
all descriptions. In the present dilapidated state of fhes’e venerable budd-
'ings ' or;,description of
their original, .disposition, extent, * or even of their numb.ej and figure.
Those that remain, with any degree of. their p r ima r y e l e v a t i on, are
tefil* disposed in three lines, running north and south, ,Qf those on thq
. western linej Which are far^thefiarglst and most lofty,, that m the centre
towers high above the "res{ and its juttind'fragments lie, tumbled about
pyef-a larger area. Nothing pan, exceed H r a Ë desolation which this
spot presents s and the feelings ,-pf reyèry . visitor are attuned, by the scene;
1 dFaiirroundipg ^eyasiatiom ■> Jtp r£fi,ect,’Hthat while, these -n,dbl.e monuments of
t^e,ancient‘plepdoui!.pftreljgion and the art§ (are submitting, with sullen
slowness, ,to the dqst^qtive hand, of ythpe and nature, .the art which,
msed thern has perished before them, and the- faith which they were to
honour has now no other honour in the land.