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The Dutch removed the footing briefly in 1885, photographed the exposed panels a few years later, then restored the footing for stability's sake. Since then, only four panels have been visible. Even they remained inexplicable until 1931, when a scholar studying these pictures of human behavior and of graphically depicted heavens and hells—especially hells—realized that they illustrated the *Mahakarmavibhangga*, \"The Great Classification of Actions.\"","seriesKey":"indonesia-borobudur","seriesPosition":2,"visitedDate":"2002","publishedDate":"2002-06-01T04:00:00.000Z","originalUrl":"https://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=182&chapterid=185&picturesize=medium","heroSha":"5d4a424ae4369b6151b181fdbfedff85292af5ad6f8f239698aae5816f19c87f","authorLabel":"Bryan Wallach","_meta":{"sameAs":[]}}