Buddhist Art in Java

PLATE XXXIII

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Plate XXXIII Cf. pp. 209, 211

I. - This outline, for convenience completed by restoring the pinnacles, has the effect of ocularly exhibiting the shape, as a segment of a sphere, but -with indented edges, which the original plan had from the beginning assigned to the stupa of Boro-Budur and of which the addition of the lower terrace has not succeeded in divesting it. (Cf. p. 209.)

II. - View of the northern staircase, where it leaves the first gallery: as far as the fourth it can still be perceived : then it is hidden from the view of the spectator standing at the foot of the building. On issuing from the fourth and last polygonal gallery, its slope, already much reduced, passes under the only ornamental gateway which to this day has remained intact. (Cf. p. 211.)

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