A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s3.11

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If the description recorded by Mr. Garrick, Sir A. Cunningham's assistant, can be depended on, certain relief sculptures at the Mokaljī temple on the famous rock of Chitōr possess high merit as works of art. The darkness of the chamber in which they are placed unfortunately frustrated attempts to photograph them. The temple, originally erected in the eleventh century, was reconstructed in the fifteenth century during the reign of Mokaljī (a. d. 1428–38). The pillars bearing the reliefs evidently belong to the earlier building.² The bas-reliefs, sixteen in number, are carved on octagonal bands of the eastern pair of pillars supporting the principal chamber of the temple, eight scenes on each pillar. The first scene on the southern column of the pair, according to Mr. Garrick,