A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t2.8
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s5.t2.8
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formal in design and defective in expression, seem to be executed with great delicacy. Well-authenticated portrait statues are rare in India. Mr. Walhouse mentions the existence of a life-size brass image of the Jain Tīrthankara Sāntīsvara, 'erect and enshrined in burnished silver and brass work variegated with red ornaments', just outside the colossus enclosure at Yēnūr in South Kanara.²