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 442 FURTHER INDIA. BOOK VIII. 30 ft. high above the platform, the central tower over the cell is 50 ft. high, with triple storey and balusters, like those on the porches, but of increased dimensions, and all the vertical plane surfaces are elaborately carved with griffons, birds and foliage, triangular vertical pendants between the balusters and ante- fixae at the angles with sculpture somewhat Greek in character. The crowning feature of all these towers resembles that which forms the summit of the illustration in Plate LVII. Fig. i, at Blitar. The structure itself would seem to have been erected as a memorial of some kind as with two others of different design, but all placed side by side it is raised on a platform about 3 ft. high with a flight of steps in front. What is remarkable in this illustration is the almost entire absence of any carved mouldings a series of square fillets receding or projecting constitutes the leading characteristic of its design. The platform on which the temple at Singasari rests is 5 ft. 6 in. high, and 43 ft. 6 in. square, and on the western side is an additional platform like those at Chandi Jago 13 ft. wide and projecting 16 ft. 8 in. The two flights of steps to the platform rise on each side between the two platforms. With the exception of the gorgon heads on the doorway of each porch there is no other sculpture. Returning now westward, about 6 miles east of Kediri, according to Sir T. Stamford Raffles, is a solid massive structure at Sentul, without any internal chamber, affording on its summit an extensive platform with steps of ascent on the west side, the sides and the curb walls of the steps being enriched with sculpture. Eight miles south-west of Sentul is Chandi Prudung, constructed entirely in brick, but with a plan similar to the temples already described at Prambanan and Singasari, viz., with central cell and porch and three other cells. The most remarkable temples in the vicinity of Kediri are the two examples at Panataran, of which the annexed views (Plates LV. and LVI.) illustrate the most important. From the plan, Woodcut No. 488, and the views, it will be seen that it is virtually a three-storeyed pyramid, with flat platform at the top. The lower platform is 80 ft. square, with bastions on each side 35 ft. wide, one on the front or western face projecting 25 ft., and the other three 10 ft. only. On each side of the western projection is a flight of fourteen steps leading up to the first platform ; the second platform is 65 ft. square, with three recesses instead of projections, and on the western side a central flight of ten steps leading to the second platform, and in continuation from steps rising to the upper platform, which is 34 ft. 6 in. square. The podium of the lower platform is ornamented with numerous bas-reliefs on panels, representing subjects, taken principally