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The works of art are shared by all the three indigenous Indian religions—Brahmanical Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. The Jain sculpture is so extremely formal and conventional that it possesses little interest, and the slight notice which it demands will be reserved for the concluding section of this chapter. The Buddhist and Brahmanical works are both numerous and very much alike in spirit and style. The spirit of the new art will be most easily understood from study of the Brahmanical, or apparently Brahmanical, sculptures, to which the few illustrations for which there is space will be restricted. In those days Buddhism was a dying Plate XLII. Deities in Vaishnava cave, Bādāmī. (Photo. 940, I. O. *List* = Pl. XXVI, *A. S. W. I.*, vol. i.)