A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t1.53
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t1.53
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¹ The Workmans consider the two unfinished *gopuras*, or gateways, to be the finest in India from an artistic point of view. The one at the entrance of the temple is fast going to pieces. ‘The scroll-work is varied and executed in the best manner, and the animal figures, particularly those of the elephants and monkeys, are admirable. The sides have highly decorated niches supported by graceful plantain columns’ (*Through Town and Jungle*, p. 115). A plate of the ‘river *gopura*’ and *choultri* faces p. 116.