Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.56

c10.56

Again the thought occurs that, had it by chance been labelled "Roman," or "Greek," this magnificent work of art would now be the pride of some great metropolitan museum in Europe or America. It is one of two colossal war-horses placed outside the southern façade of the so-called Black Pagoda at Kanârak, in Orissa, a temple dedicated to Surya, the Sun-god, which is said to have been built by Narasimha I., about the middle of the thirteenth century.