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. . . Mr. Ball (an English man long resident of Java) drove me over to the village of Mojo-agong where he was building a house and premises for the tobacco trade.. . . . On our way we stayed to look at a fragment of the ruin of the ancient city of Mujopahit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majapahit consisting of two lofty brick masses, apparently the sides of a gateway. The extreme perfection and beauty of the brickwork astonished. . . . . In the house of the Waidono or district chief at Mojoagong, I saw a beautiful figure carved in high relief out of a block of lava and which had been found buried in the ground near the village. On my expressing a wish to obtain some such specimen he immediately gave it to me. It represented the Hindu goddess Durga, called in Java, Lora Jonggrant (the exalted virgin). She has eight arms, and stands on the back of a kneeling bull. Herlower right hand holds the tail of the bull, while the corresponding left hand grasps the hair of a captive, Dweth Mahikusor, the personification of vice, who has attempted to slay her bull. He has a cord round his waist and couches at her feet in an attitude of supplication. The other hands of the goddess hold, on her right side, a double hook or small anchor, a broad straight sword, and a noose of thick cord; on her left, a girdle or armlet of large beads or shells, an unstrung bow, and standard of war flag. This diety was special favorite among the old Javanese, and her image is often found in the ruined temple which abound in the eastern part of island.

The specimen I had obtained was a small one, about two feet high weighing perhaps a hunderdweight. . . . . Page 78

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