Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods) c22.17

c22.17

and are of stupendous proportions being fifteen feet high and five feet wide at the base ; as some of the standing figures are also fifteen feet in height the effect as a whole recalls some of the similarly large-scale productions of the ancient Egyptians Through the perspective of these ponderous piers, the sculptured shapes of the gods move elusive yet persistent "imaged in dimly-seen titanic forms, looming out of the unknown depths of space and eternity."