A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c12.s1.17

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A composition, nearly life-size, at Pathārī in the Bhopāl Agency, believed to represent the new-born Krishna lying by the side of his mother, who is watched by five attendants (Plate XXXVI), was rather extravagantly praised by Mr. Beglar as being 'the finest and largest piece of Indian sculpture'. But if that judgement be considered too enthusiastic, we may accept the more sober view of Colonel Waterhouse, himself an artist, who commends the 'beauty and artistic grace of the composition'. The style is much the same as that of the Dēogarh panels, and the group must be of nearly the same age. Several monuments bear testimony to the prevalence of Krishna worship in the Gupta period.² Interesting Brahmanical sculptures exist at many places, which cannot be noticed in detail.³