A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s4.26

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The Brahmanical structural temple at Amarnāth (Ambarnāth) in the Thāna District, thirty-eight miles from Bombay, dating probably from the eleventh century, was minutely surveyed in 1868–9. According to the *Gazetteer*, 'The sculpture both on the pillars of the hall and round the whole of the outside shows a degree of skill that is not surpassed on any temple in the Bombay Presidency.’ It has the extravagant character common to the productions of the age. One illustration may be given (Fig. 157). It is a poor thing, but as good as anything else in the building.¹