Ruins of Buddhistic Temples in Prågå Valley—Tyandis Båråbudur, Mendut and PawonGroneman, I. (Isaac)
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Ruins of Buddhistic Temples in Prågå Valley—Tyandis Båråbudur, Mendut and Pawon
Groneman, I. (Isaac)
Buddhist temples; Temples -- Indonesia -- Java
Fortunately, the figures in lead pencil on the back-side could assist
me, though they sometimes started from quite a wrong point.
The Dutch Government ordered 15 pair of photos to be taken from these
clichés, and presented them to special musea or societies. _I_, the
schemer of the plan, do not belong to the favoured. But the afterwards
wrecked Archaeological Society did, notwithstanding I, her president,
sent this plan to the Government for about 25 years ago[82].
Those who desire to examine these photos will find here the letters and
figures in the _just_ successive number of the sculptures to begin with
C 1 south of the eastern staircase.
C, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6;
B, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8;
A, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6;
U, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1;
T, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1;
S¹, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1;
S, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6;
R, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8;
Q, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6;
P, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1;
O, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1;
N¹, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1;
N, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6;
M, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8;
L, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6;
K, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1;
I, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1;
H¹, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1;
H, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6;
G, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8;
F, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6;
E, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1;
D, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1;
C¹, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1;
Six of these 160 sculptures are badly damaged whilst one of them is
wholly lost. (R. 5). Seven have less suffered. Twenty representations
remained partially unfinished (C 3 and 4, B 7, A 2, U 4, S 1, O 7, N 5,
M 2, K 4 and 3, H¹ 2, H 1, G 4 and 8, F 2, 4 and 6, D 3 and C¹ 4).
Partly _finished_ but for the rest not yet drawn in the rough are 3
scenes (H¹ 1, F¹, and D 4) whereas one (I 1) has been scarcely sketched.
On the flat frame above the series we see a few short indications
engraved in ancient-javanese characters—dating, according to professor
Kern, from about the year 800 of the Syaka-era,—roughly hewed and in a
perfunctory manner, as if it were scratched in stone with a knife or a
chisel, that is, above H 1, 2, 3 and 4 (twice); 5 (bis) and 6 (bis); F
1, 4, and 5; E 6 and 5; D 8, 6 (bis), 5 (bis), 4, 3 and 1 (bis)[83].
Some of these legends are no more or hardly to be read but the other
ones read by Dr. J. Brandes don’t teach us any more than that which we
may understand by closely examining the representations themselves, for
instance, that the _sĕmbah_ of the persons seated around a tomb or
sanctuary refers to a reverence to a _tyaitya_[84].
Some inscriptions may contain the name of the person to be hewed, and to
assist the sculptor.
The unfinished and scarcely sketched sculptures prove us that they, such
as on other _tyanḍis_ at _Parambanan_, have been hardly hewed here on
the walls of the finished temples.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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