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‘ In regard to bronze images ’ says Mr. Rao ‘ it is believed by some that India could not have known the Cire perdue method of making metal images earlier than about the tenth century A.D. and that India must have, therefore, borrowed it from Europe. That the art of casting metals in wax moulds is much earlier in India can be shewn in more ways than one.’ In support of his assertion, Mr. Rao gives the three above-mentioned quotations.—(*Elements of Hindu Iconography.*)