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It looks like a pyramid ‘more than 600 feet in breadth across its shortest width north and south, and rising to 180 feet at the summit of the central tower. It is consequently larger and higher than Boro-Budur, and surpasses the latter in its ornamentation as well as in the delicacy of its carvings.’⁴