A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c12.s1.51

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Lumps of copper ore found close by indicate that the smelting and casting were done on the spot. The hand of another large copper statue was picked up, and three small Buddhas of the same metal were discovered. One, nearly destroyed by rust, was seated, the three others were standing, with halos broken and detached. Small basalt images of Buddha, in the style of the big statue and found near it, are shown in the lithograph published in the *Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal*. The smooth transparent robe and the object held in the left hand (? a palm-leaf book) connect the colossus with the tiny gold image in the British Museum (*post*, Chap. X, Sec. 4), which I am disposed to assign to the sixth century.¹