CANDI BANYUNIBO
Beautifully carved double makara-motif is above the niche
which frames a seated female deity. Three stone oxen stand in a row. You can
see the spaces where the most important sculpture has been robbed. Most of the
roof is missing. A statue of a goddess point’s o Java’s ancient links with
Ceylon, some believe, in its strong facial and bodily form, very reminiscent of
India. An almost duplicate goddess can be found in a niche above the entrance
of the House of Pilgrims behind the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka.
CANDI KALASAN
Remnants of fined, yellowed plaster work can also be seen at
Candi Kalasan. An ancient inscription dates Kalasan at 778 AD, but the existing
structure is probably a century younger. The outstanding feature is a huge,
ornate kala-head above the southern doorway. If you can stand the sweet-
ammonia stench of bat drppings, the inner chamber o Kalasan reveals the
overlapping blocks of an extraordinary high and steep pyramidal structure; it
once housed of an extraordinarily high and steep pyramidal structure; it once housed
a huge bronze statue of Buddha.
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