[8]Professor _Kern_ wrote to me that the alphabetical writing of the inscriptions we see on some demi-relievoes on the outer-walls should date from the year 800, or thereabouts, of the _Shaka_ era, thus our _ninth_ century. And this rather corresponds to the age of the Buddha temples in the plain of _Parambanan_. Does not a stone of one of these _tyanḍis_ testify to this temple’s having been built in the year 701 of the _shaka_ era, and dedicated to the service of _Târâ_ in honour of the prince’s _guru_ or teacher, who may have been buried there? And in the year 415 the Chinese Buddhist, _Fa Hien_, when in Java, came across many a brahmin Hindu. He didn’t speak about Buddhists, but this circumstance alone does not prove his not having met co-religionists, nor does it produce any evidence of their non-existence in the interior of Java he didn’t visit probably. _I Tsing_ see note says that the inhabitants of Java and of the other islands of the Archipelago principally embraced Hînayânism. “_Buddhism was ... chiefly the Hînayâna_” (page XLVII), and “_the ten or more islands of the Southern Sea_ (_Sumatra_, _Java_ _etc._) generally belong to the Hînayâna.” (page XXX). Such happened in our _seventh century_. [9]See his essay about _Aymonier_’s: “Le Cambodge”, I, written in the “_Bulletin de l’Ecole française d’Extréme-Orient_”, II, page 83 note 4. [10]_Attap_ means palm-fronds used for thatch by the Javanese (_Chambers_). The scaffolding has been removed since, and the stone roof was rebuilt by the major engineer Van Erp. 1911. [11]This _prabha_ has been also restored. 1911. [12]The heavy colonnades of which will be sacrificed to the swelling waters of the river Nile. But they are doomed to destruction because this stream must vivify the rainless country. [13]I, number 3, p. 249 and II, number 1, p. 20 and 30. [14]“_Oudheidkundige Aanteekeningen_” IV, p. 59 and 60. [15]This cone’s top has been removed again because of Mr. van Erp’s having been unable to prove his reproduction of this cone with its umbrellas to be incontestably true. [16]This idea of mine about the graduation of the Båråbudur’s origin is given as a questionable hypothesis. However great the consequences were, we can not know until we have compared the alto-relievoes of these and other Javanese Hindu-temples with the artless wall-paintings I saw in the Ceylon pagodae. [17]Buddha himself thought it useless to pray, but the Buddhists of later times prayed however, but didn’t worship the images themselves. The Chinese—very degenerated Buddhists—light their pipes on the flames of the consecrated waxcandles burning on the altar, and consider this no sacrilege.