A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c12.s1.65
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c12.s1.65
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The third in date is the fine monolithic pillar, 43 feet high, set up at Eran in the Sāgar District, C. P., as ‘the flag-staff of *four-armed* Vishnu’, in A.D. 484–5 (Fig. 121). The statue now on the top is a *two-armed* male figure with two faces and a radiated halo—a form not easy of interpretation.