Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.88

c10.88

But the most detailed and interesting description of these painted quadrangles is given by Bhabhabhuti, a celebrated Indian dramatist of the sixth century, in his *Uttara Rama Charita*, which is translated by Wilson. Here a whole scene in the first act is devoted to an animated description of a series of pictures illustrating the Râmâyana, painted on the walls of a quadrangle in the garden of Râma's palace at Ayodhya, just as we have seen such scenes sculptured in the quadrangle of the temple of Vishnu at Prambanam.