Eating and drinking takes up a very small place, less perhaps than we might expect though it is hardly a subject for edifying tales. A few times we see food being prepared. First on O 2

####No Reference found O, 2

where a cauldron is fixed on to a trivet over a wood fire, which a man is blowing up with a blowpipe; another sits next to him cleaning fish to be cooked in the pot. The knife he is using is just the shape of the present day wedung. On O 15
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Plate II 15
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we see a wide flat pan also on a trivet and some-one blowing up the fire; another man stands by, stirring with a spoon and holding a smaller dish in his hand. A third time we find something similar on Ia 84
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Plate XLII 84
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where the rice is being cooked for the future Buddha; here too a large cauldron on a trivet over a woodfire and two women, one with a spoon, the other with a blowpipe. In conclusion may be mentioned O 89
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Plate XII 89
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where fishes and tortoises are being boiled by two evildoers, who will soon receive the same treatment themselves in the infernal regions.

The meal itself we find ten times O 12, 14, 20, 97, 122, 144
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Plate II 12
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Plate II 14
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Plate III 20
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Plate XIII 97
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Plate XVI 122
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####No Reference found O, 144

, Ia 29, 112
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Plate XV 29
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Plate LVI 112
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, Ib 66
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Plate XXXIII 66
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, IBb 15

####No Reference found IBb, 15

), the bill of fare appears to be always the same, the wellknown "rijsttafel". There is always a large ball of rice in the middle with small dishes of various viands all round it, more or less in number and distinctness. Unusually elaborate and by good luck unusually well-preserved are the "rijsttafels" on Ia 112
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Plate LVI 112
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and Ib 66
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Plate XXXIII 66
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; on the latter we can plainly see the fishes and the sate j ust as on the famous Prambanan relief. Sometimes the fish are served on top of the ball of rice. Drink is not always given, but we see drinking cups of rather wide or bowlshape being filled from a jug with a spout, while relays of food are being brought to the table; the large bowl that is being served on Ib 66
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Plate XXXIII 66
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might perhaps be intended for a sayuran. On very rare occasions we are strewn a drinking-party with its attendant dissoluteness: they drink out of wide bowls and the spirituous liquor is poured out of a jug with spout so as just-mentioned, or a smalI-sized martevan such as we see being brought to the table O 97
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Plate XIII 97
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) or a jug narrow in shape with along neck, pointed spout and large handle, the same as used for water-carrying at the well on Ib 16
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Plate VIII 16
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. A smaller scene of this kind we find on O 90
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Plate XII 90
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as a prelude to hell-punishment; again more circumstantial, on 0 20 andIBa 59; what makes this affair still more disgraceful according to the Buddhist sculptors, perhaps intentionally, these offenders are brahmans.