Gates of this type are also met with in eastern Java, and arc also depicted on bas-reliefs found in Desa Trawulan, which is situated oil the same spot where the ancient capital of Madjapahit formerly stood. Curiously trough, the old mosque at Kudus, a 16th-century Islamic building, also has a similar gate.

From this first court, in which, incidentally tile Balinese stag-ed their Popular cock-fights, one passes into the second court through a covered gateway, Paduraksa. This gate is one of tile most splendidly decorated structures of the whole temple complex, its plan being based on that of a tjandi. In the second court there stands the great assembly hall, bale-agung, where the cider, of the community meet, and where certain rites are also performed.

Here, too, is to be- found the signal, drum, kulkul, made from a hollowed-out cylindrically-shaped piece of wood, split lengthwise. This court is completed by several sacrificial recesses and sheds for the slaughter of sacrificial animals.

The third court, to which one also gains access through a gateway, is the temple proper. There are no idols here. The Balinese imagine their deities as residing upon the peaks of tile many volcanoes which tower up in the interior of the island. A stone seat for a deity, padmasana (padmna == lotus), has indeed been erected here; this spot, for the most part lavishly decorated, is where the deity invoked is thought to be present, invisible to human eyes, during the ceremony.

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