In The Centre Is A Large Cruciform Temple
Surrounded By Lofty Flights Of Steps Richly Ornamented With
Sculpture, And Containing Many Apartments.
The tropical
vegetation has ruined most of the smaller temples, but some
remain tolerably perfect, from which the effect of the whole may
be imagined.
About half a mile off is another temple, called Chandi Kali
Bening, seventy-two feet square and sixty feet high, in very fine
preservation, and covered with sculptures of Hindu mythology
surpassing any that exist in India, other ruins of palaces,
halls, and temples, with abundance of sculptured deities, are
found in the same neighbourhood.
BOROBODO. - About eighty miles westward, in the province of Kedu,
is the great temple of Borobodo. It is built upon a small hill,
and consists of a central dome and seven ranges of terraced walls
covering the slope of the hill and forming open galleries each
below the other, and communicating by steps and gateways. The
central dome is fifty feet in diameter; around it is a triple
circle of seventy-two towers, and the whole building is six
hundred and twenty feet square, and about one hundred feet high.
In the terrace walls are niches containing cross-legged figures
larger than life to the number of about four hundred, and both
sides of all the terrace walls are covered with bas-reliefs
crowded with figures, and carved in hard stone and which must
therefore occupy an extent of nearly three miles in length! The
amount of human labour and skill expended on the Great Pyramid of
Egypt sinks into insignificance when compared with that required
to complete this sculptured hill-temple in the interior of Java.
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