The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.99

c11.s1.99

Chitor (XVth Century), « a double pair of Kinnaras », perfectly analogous to those of Boro-Budur (¹). Perhaps, under the Kinnara-jātaka rubric, they were not otherwise treated even on the old railing of Barhut : unfortunately we can only judge of this by a wretched sketch from a half-broken stone, and there is at present nothing to prove that, as Cunningham suggests, the leaves, or the feathers, which terminate the busts of the two monsters, « must have separated their human trunks from their bird legs » (²).