44 ANTIQUITIES.
ed. There appear to be several dwellings, if-not villages, within the walls,
and a good deal of cultivation, principally of tobacco.
The next morning we proceeded to visit the ruins at Kédal and Jdgu, the
former about seven miles, the lattef nearly four from Malang, in a southeasterly
direction.
A t Kédal are the remains of a very beautiful, temple of stone : its present
height about thirty-five feet. The building, is supported by a lion at each of
the four cornices, and one on each side of the steps of the entrance. ' In the
centre of -each of the lower departments, between, the lions, are figures in
relief -upon the: wall. The mouldings . and sculpture on this temple are
in the same style as those of Brambanan and Bóro Bóda, but of «still greater
beauty. j The building is;surrounded by a square wall, and in thêiiffonfcis à
raised terrace. The chamber appears to be:of the same form as most of the
temples in Java. Over the entrance is an immense gorgon head, .and .in'the
chamber itself a deep hole. •
. ..There are no Hindu images' ór other traces of Hindu mythology,- except
what may .be afforded by the lions,: and' the figures in relief above mentioned.
These represent the sa.me principal figure, but with different attributes.
On one side three immense serpents entwine over the head, the tail of one of
them evidently held in the right hand ; on another a water-pot, with a
serpent’ s head attached to it, is on the head of the figure ; and on the other
there is a female figure' with a serpent, the female reclining over the head.. ;
This .temple is just within the skirts of a forest. ;
At Jdgu, also,' we found the ruins a few yard's within a forest, but these
appeared to have been more extensive than the preceding.
- The base'of the principal building is: much larger than any'.of the temples
we visited in the eastern part of the island, and there «ippeared to have
been Originally two or- three terraces rising one above the other to tlie
height of thirty féet. ■ The form of the entrance still appears, but the-roof, i
sides, and back part of the building,' have entirely given way. Behind the.
ruin,- and apparently in the same' spot on which* it 'originally fell,; lies a-
dilapidated image of a Hindu deity.* The pedestal of this image is perfect,
and lies near it. The head had been carried to Malang<■ some years ago by a
Dutchman.! On the back stone we observed an inscription, evidently in the.
B&oandgari character, and-which the Sepoy who accompanied us declared.
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* See plate from subjects in stone found near Singa Sari, No. 3. f Ditto, No.