A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s1.20

c13.s1.20

The temples and shrines at Bhuvanesvar, said to be five or six hundred in number, are usually richly decorated, and so offer a wide field for selection, limited to some extent by the fact that many of the sculptures are grossly obscene, constituting, it is said, a complete set of illustrations of the Sanskrit *Kāmaśāstra*, or erotic treatises.⁵ The few decent examples for which space is available are selected for their purely aesthetic merits.