aimexed'.platef .are .'taken indiscrisiiijaBtoriffia collection ?of upwards of a
Hundred brought -to dEnglanld/.tffe annexed'rto^each'Pe$ag determined
by the, Chdndra Sangkala,, asmsplaifedi %AaGhjparticulaiJfl:c®i«:-by''flie Jii^i
'Adipdiiiof 'Bemäki.l Thusjthfida5ti.-wbich'jhaSät%e'..dafcelt568J‘,isiexpl£(ftied as
follow#:; =-
. .. - • - ftoJm r ■' * • - iß P&s
v _' •
8 1 HI I I I 'M .
br/lSf^iistlS-say}“ snakes aremovihg while-’men are-working :V*a!0iMi&gj(fo -the
twdjsnak^zWljieh-appear entwining t%eth&jbve1weeniän'd:äbä^e'lheT1;w'o' men
■whBiire^mastering an animal.; The coiöiwith'the'.diäteoi^sg'.bears a Ja~van
iris&ipfiio'm'ofi vßoriger aim Rdtu, -tji e ■ titl e drpwh ich» iii nee. o f Bantam^'who
-reigned dmfhat ydarJ^^recognizdtl'sbysfgh^sijlvansf'isJ
T h e^ gd e i^ id e te rm in in g -these ddates ibydthe' GMndrh, Bdngßdfa appears
shhW^’er-J^SSfe'eFtai’n' anddlwunderstoolf, tbat^petfrapslbut dittlemelfanceisito
b ß p laeedÄ ilit. k.Have, hfetfeifehelds's,sgfven 'them; in^ordtrftoJshewsIhdmotion
fönrfe Javans On. th e subject,:- and .as -it is not im|n?dbab’lei they may be’ fdund
•usefulUntl’lusträtfergsthe.gaaly h j s t ö g £ IttmfcOuhfsyi ^MajiyieftheTooins not
dillropean or'Indian,- found U r itK ^ ^ cn^ iE ä go / tiig r i^ ^ as in On ir ic and
däpaft, ,;have.ä'af’i t e lä ipr-JKef^eentre. ’ Thesexcoins,- seem p&; hav.eTtbeeftjJpf
hy ^ pmanufactUrefc’' ithe^eieGation is rude ^bnit'fhie cfigotresj stihhuas they
ßiäjr inigenferäli well definediand ‘clearly expressed.:: Mh4 theme'iriity ofi'-the
.ptinoidlfetemples Pave ixegn;ibund: small-: sdvec-momspdibdut .thSS'.iizfi.’ o f.a
MadrÄ^ plgoda, treating—the impression o f ,a,small cross,sind w ß so tn e -rude
•and: uniiiteliigiblelcharacteTS.'
■ -J But perhaps 'the,.most striking and interestingVestige-Of. antiquity;which island of Ba«.
iisstdfb'e found in the ;Easterrs Seas,-.isithmaetual rs'tate'mfedciety' in the island
.ppiBdli, whithej- the persecuted Hindus took refuge' on:the" destruction, of
:MqjapdMt, and where the Hindu feligrdn^ is still tM established worship .of
-the cattmtiy. This interesting i^and. has 'hitherto been but little explored
Europeans;- and -whate-We know.of .it is' only sufficient to make us anxious
-toknow-more. I visited.the island in 1815, andl such-pax ticiilars coficTeffli.
dng:it-as the limits of the present w,ork admit of, .will bedbtmd in. Appen-
sdix -K.; v -
t - Ip the courseof the present-.work it has been.myPbjccf tor convey to the Conclusion,
public, in.as moippsessed . aLform.is <my tiipe peTmittedjv.and without' bias
.from previouslpiconceived opinions mr new theories; .the information which
I possessed.
* See plate, Ancient Osins, with their supposed dates.