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 204 ANCIENT RELIGION OP THE in which I conclude the party nearest to him to be Victorious. Buddha is never found represented as the object of worship in a temple ; and the only figures that are so, are a certain male and female divinity, decked with crowns, and with the dis- tinguishing thread of the higher orders over the shoulders. These want any distinguishing attri- bute of a Hindu divinity, but in other respects are identified with delineations of Siwa and Durga, where they are better characterized by their parti- cular emblems. Siwa is better marked in an- other group, where he is carried in procession in a triumphal car, being the individual distinguish- ed by the crescent. Except these, no other my- thological personages are represented in the sculp- tures of Boro Budur, or any other temple on the island. I shall conclude these remarks on the sculptures and decorations of the temples of the first and second class, by submitting a few remarks of a general nature which apply to all. 1. The scenery, the figures, the faces, and costume, are not native, but those of Western India. Of the human figures, the faces are characterized by the strongest features of the Hindu countenance. Many of these are even seen with bushy beards, an ornament of the face denied by nature to all the Indian islanders. The loins are seen girt after the manner now practised in India, a cus- tom unknown to the Javanese, or any other peo.^