A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t1.13

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This uncomfortable experience is clearly set forth in the relief, the right-hand half of which is reproduced in Plate XLVI. The old worshipper lower down is the Brahman Drona. Some life-like figures of elephants are under the proper left half of the relief, not reproduced here. The picture is designed for edification rather than as a work of art, and is therefore lacking in composition. It is much corroded by the sea air, and when allowance is made for that, some of the individual figures seem to possess a certain amount of aesthetic merit.¹