A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t1.65

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'The façade of this hall,' Fergusson observes, 'like that of almost all the great halls in the south of India, is adorned either with *yālis*—monsters of the lion type trampling on an elephant—or, even more generally, by a group consisting of a warrior sitting on a rearing horse, whose feet are supported on the shields of foot-soldiers, sometimes slaying men, sometimes tigers. These groups are found literally in hundreds in Southern India, and, as works exhibiting difficulties overcome by patient labour, they are unrivalled, so far as I know, by anything found elsewhere.