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At the meeting corner between the walls of the temple’s foot and its stairs banisters,

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with curly hair in a bun on the crown of his head, wearing exposed cloth, and wearing
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carvings in shape of tendrils, clouds, rocks, and leaves, as if depicting the dense forest.

Both ends of the stairs banisters of the temple are not in shape of loop as found in the
temples of Majapahit period, but in form of sitting lions with standing front legs. Their
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southwest and southeast corners. On the outer wall of the stairs banisters (north and
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a funny face (punakawan VWDULQJ DW D ¿JXUH RI PDQ LQ FORWK ZLWK FXUO\ KDLU EHVLGH
pseudo pole. (cha)

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