South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c9.25

c9.25

The School of the South Indian Bronzes with which we are specially concerned here invites comparison with the contemporary stone sculptures in the South which were produced practically under the same influence and conditions and for the same purpose of illustrating the Saivaite mythology. Indeed the same artists sometimes cast the bronze images who chiselled the stone panels in the niches of the temple. The number of accomplishments of a master-craftsman are enumerated as ten, in some of the manuscripts—