A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s3.8

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The group of mediaeval temples at Khajurāho is the largest and most important in Upper India. At minor sites we find the same lack of individual works of artistic distinction and, as a rule, the same absence of detailed record. The temples of Mount Ābū in Rājputāna undoubtedly exhibit masses of sculptured decoration of the most marvellous richness and delicacy, as sufficiently exemplified in Plates VI and VII, *ante*. But there does not seem to be anything deserving of isolation from the mass for study as a separate work of art. I do not know of any detachable mediaeval sculptures of Upper India comparable in artistic interest with the Chola panels at Gangaikondapuram (Figs. 159, 160, 161, *post*), or even with the chlorite statues of Konārak (Figs. 142 and 143, *ante*), except in the less-known parts of Rājputāna, where the researches of Mr. D. R. Bhandarkar have recently disclosed an unexpected wealth of sculpture, especially between Sirōhi and Jodhpur.