A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t1.61

c13.s5.t1.61

Photographs, kindly supplied by Mr. Young, I.C.S., Magistrate and Collector of Trichinopoly, hardly support Mr. Bedford’s enthusiastic praise, although the general effect of the work is doubtless pleasing. A specimen is shown in Fig. 169. The style is totally different from that usual in the South. Inquiry has failed to elicit any information about the history of the sculptures or the identity of the artists. Possibly the eminent skill possessed by the sculptors of Gangaikonda-Chōlapuram in the eleventh century may have been transmitted to descendants in the seventeenth century in at least some degree. Udaiyār-pālaiyam is not very far from Gangaikonda-Chōlapuram.