A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s1.33
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s1.33
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At the famous temple of Jagannāth, Purī, built about A. D. 1100, a well-executed group representing a Hindu mother with her baby (Fig. 137) offers a welcome change on gods and goddesses. Human sentiment is painfully rare in Indian mediaeval sculpture. This group seems to me to be of great merit.