A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t1.72
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t1.72
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figures appear to be unknown elsewhere, and it is not apparent how they became so much favoured in the Tamil country. Fergusson probably was right in his suggestion that the rampant horses, *yālis*, and heavy cornices with double curvature, characteristic of the Dravidian temples in the South, were derived from primitive terra-cotta forms.