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already illustrated sufficiently in Plate X (*ante*, p. 41). The artists who designed such enormous sheets of rich sculpture aimed at producing an imposing effect by the splendour of a mass of carvings of the highest complexity, rather than by inviting attention to individual figures. Nevertheless, the individual figures will bear examination in detail, the elephants especially being exquisitely true to nature. The gods and human figures are less satisfactory. As already observed (*ante*, p. 44), many of the larger statues of the Mysore temples are signed by the artists, but archaeological explorers and writers have been too busy with other matters to reproduce examples of such signed images; the numerous photographs prepared by the Survey being devoted to giving views of façades rather than studies of sculpture. I am therefore not in a position to illustrate the signed statues, or to distinguish the styles of individual artists.