Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.22

c10.22

Casts of these fine sculptures are in the Ethnographic Museum at Berlin, but from want of space they are not displayed to great advantage there. The most striking subject is the well-known Indian legend, told in the Râmâyana, of the churning of the ocean by the gods and *asuras* in order to procure *amrita*, the nectar of immortality. This is treated with immense imaginative power and sense of movement, but the sculptures as a rule do not possess the peculiar charm of Bôrôbudûr.