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‘The fundamental formative idea of Boro Budur monument is that of a *dagoba* with five procession paths. These, however, have become square in plan instead of circular; and, instead of one great domical building in the centre, we have here seventy-two smaller ones, each containing the statue of a Buddha; and one large one in the centre, which was quite solid externally but had a cell in its centre, which might have contained a relic or some precious object.’