A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s3.31
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s3.31
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Curious bearded images, seemingly portraits, occur in some of the Rājputāna temples. One of the most remarkable is the bust reproduced in Fig. 151, which adorns a pillar or pilaster of the temple of Undesvara Mahādeva at Bijolia in the Mewār or Udaipur State, supposed to have been erected not later than the middle of the twelfth century. The beard is treated in the Egyptian manner.¹ Portrait statuary is more common in Rājputāna than elsewhere.