In the rear of this Temple a verandah runs across from one side to the other over a length of 220 feet. This verandah fronts several smaller two storied temples, and altar pieces;—in the rear being another range of five temples, with smaller ones behind these again, and then a small kitchen garden, bounded by the Monastery wall and hedge. This boundary in its whole extent embraces an area of five and a half acres of ground. On the west side, besides the dormatories spoken of is a fine kitchen garden—on the east are buildings of various classes. A gate on the north east corner leads into a road way by a perfect street of two storied houses, at the end of which is the grand kitchen, a building in which the boilers for rice measure six feet across, with scoops to remove the food not unlike the ladles used in iron foundries. Adjacent to the cuisine is a large two storied Hall, with an open area a hundred feet square, and a rostrum, intended, apparently, for the purpose of addressing a multitude. Such a building, now almost altogether unoccupied, would afford several companies of soldiers the most comfortable quarters. The south eastern quarter of the compound—the eastern side of the entrance courts mentioned being twice as wide as the western areas—is variously bestowed;—Granaries. Winnowing and Tea-drying Rooms, Carpenters' yards and sheds, and general depositories.
A gate on the south eastern corner leads to a water mill, in which the priests grind their flour, and to shops where Basket makers, Tailors, Shoe-makers, and other artizans are employed—large plots of cultivated ground, fish ponds &c. affording satisfactory evidence that in enjoyment of the comforts of life both priests and attendant laymen are well versed. Not that the priests indulge in
