The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c12.16

c12.16

plate, which shows the condition in which they were discovered, have since probably been destroyed; for the photographs taken by Dr. Burgess in 1874, and published in his Report of the Archæological Survey of Western India for that year, show them already in a shockingly mutilated state. Such is the treatment of great works of art which archæological historians contemptuously dismiss as "Puranic."