A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t1.55

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The statue of a goddess on the entrance of the temple of Venkata-ramana-svāmī at the famous fortress of Jinjī (Gingee) in the South Arcot District, probably built during the time of the Vijayanagar rule a little before or after A. D. 1500, is of special interest as proving, like the Tārpatri figures, the persistence of a very ancient motive, common in Gandhāra and Mathurā art (*ante*, p. 117, Fig. 67). This late southern example preserves all the essentials of the design—the female figure, the crossed legs, the raised right arm, and the left arm twined round the stem, but it is needless to point out how the treatment at Jinjī differs from that in vogue at Peshāwar some fourteen centuries earlier (Fig. 168).