A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s4.20
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s4.20
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The sculptures in the Lankeśvara section of the Kailās temple are commended as having been ‘executed with great care and minute detail’. The best known, and perhaps the most meritorious, is that exhibiting Siva performing the Tāṇḍava dance (Fig. 152), a work remarkable for the good modelling of the principal image, and the scrupulous exactitude of the carving.