Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.242
Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.242
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c12.242
The first, Plate LXXVII., entitled "Sati," by Mr. Nanda Lal Bose, reveals to us the tragedy of Indian wifehood, when the young widow, breathing a silent prayer in her last lament, which Mrs. Sarojini Naidu has voiced in her beautiful lines, prepares to throw herself upon the funeral pyre of her dead husband. Mr. Bose, in his expressive figure, has caught all the fine feeling of the poetry.