Category: Travel Writing
When in 1896 I was obliged to retire from practice, on account of sickness, I shortly after took up my residence at Jogyåkartå again in order to devote myself to the antiquarian and ethnological studies dear to me, and to which purpose I had to establish myself in the neighbou...
When, for more than thirty years ago, I began to study the majestic ruin, I thought (like I afterwards wrote[43] in my first essay about the Båråbudur) many other imageries, at...
5. Part 5But after having heard and presented the brahmin with gifts Sutasoma returns to the lion’s son in spite of his parents’ and wives’ supplications. Has not the lion’s son become h...
7. Part 7When standing on the polygonal upper plane the space between the spires of niches and _tyaityas_ of the highest wall offers a strikingly beautiful aspect deep down and far off o...
3. Part 3Supposing now this lower terrace to be some two yards deeper on, we then arrive at the (probably) original outer terrace; but as its uncovered outer part has been lost since, we...
2. Part 2So the meaning of the mentioned scholars _doesn’t explain these 3 images_ whereas Siam’s king, on his visiting this temple in 1896, satisfactorily interpreted the north-westerly...
1. Part 1When in 1896 I was obliged to retire from practice, on account of sickness, I shortly after took up my residence at Jogyåkartå again in order to devote myself to the antiquarian...
6. Part 6A pigeon was caught by a falcon, and the _Bodhisattva_ buys the poor animal’s liberty by offering the bird of prey a proportional part of his own flesh. This is the so-called _S...
8. Part 8[3]In the Buddha pagodae I visited in _Ceylon_, at Colombo and its environs, I saw badly hewn or coloured images of _Shiva_ and of _Ganesja_. The monks called these images the r...