A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s3.22

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The most artistic object discovered by Mr. D. R. Bhandarkar during his rambles in Rājputāna—so fruitful in additions to historical knowledge—is the face looking out from a stone window in a wall of an old temple of the Sun at Vasantgaṛh in the Sirohī State (Fig. 148). Mr. Bhandarkar supposes it to date from the seventh century,¹ but, whatever its exact age, it is a beautiful work, and unique, to the best of my knowledge. The surrounding ornament is in an excellent style. This sculpture may be accepted with considerable confidence as an example of the work of the