A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t1.80

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The sculptures from the Rāmesvaram temple are somewhat later, dating from the close of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. The hideous figure of the demon with monkeys (Fig. 172) is a good example of the morbid cleverness with which the sculptors of the period treated repulsive subjects. The image of the female carrying a male deity on her back (Fig. 173) is characteristically grotesque. It too has been smudged with paint or whitewash. The modelling of the woman is not destitute of merit.