A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t2.5
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t2.5
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Exceptional interest attaches to the brass images reproduced in Plate XLVIII, which are certified by inscriptions on the shoulders to be portraits, apparently contemporary, of Krishnarāya, the famous king of Vijayanagar in the early years of the sixteenth century, and two of his queens. They stand inside a temple on the sacred hill of Tirumalai or Upper Tirupati, and were photographed by a high-caste Hindu, no European or Musalman being permitted to enter any temple on the hill. The town of Tirupati is famous for the skill of its workers in brass.¹ The images, although