The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c18.2

c18.2

AJANTÂ is only one splendid episode in the history of the classic age of Indian art—an age so rich in achievement and so pregnant in inspiration for the whole civilised world that it would be quite impossible in one volume to more than briefly summarise it. Ajantâ reveals the wreck of the great masterpieces of Indian painting. The contemporary Siva temple at Elephanta, a rocky island overlooking the harbour of Bombay, possesses the fragments which now remain of the achievements of India's Michelangelo—her Pheidias and Praxiteles.