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Rh In the rear of this Temple a verandah runs across from one side to the other over a length of 220 feet. This verandah fronts several smaller two storied temples, and altar pieces;&mdash;in the rear being another range of five temples, with smaller ones behind these again, and then a small kitchen garden, bounded by the Monastery wall and hedge. This boundary in its whole extent embraces an area of five and a half acres of ground. On the west side, besides the dormatories spoken of is a fine kitchen garden&mdash;on the east are buildings of various classes. A gate on the north east corner leads into a road way by a perfect street of two storied houses, at the end of which is the grand kitchen, a building in which the boilers for rice measure six feet across, with scoops to remove the food not unlike the ladles used in iron foundries. Adjacent to the cuisine is a large two storied Hall, with an open area a hundred feet square, and a rostrum, intended, apparently, for the purpose of addressing a multitude. Such a building, now almost altogether unoccupied, would afford several companies of soldiers the most comfortable quarters. The south eastern quarter of the compound&mdash;the eastern side of the entrance courts mentioned being twice as wide as the western areas&mdash;is variously bestowed;&mdash;Granaries. Winnowing and Tea-drying Rooms, Carpenters' yards and sheds, and general depositories.

A gate on the south eastern corner leads to a water mill, in which the priests grind their flour, and to shops where Basket makers, Tailors, Shoe-makers, and other artizans are employed&mdash;large plots of cultivated ground, fish ponds &c. affording satisfactory evidence that in enjoyment of the comforts of life both priests and attendant laymen are well versed. Not that the priests indulge in 