A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s9.4

c13.s9.4

Numberless images of both kinds might be figured without adding anything to the reader's knowledge of Indian art. They differ one from the other merely in the degree of perfection attained in mechanical execution. Undoubtedly the most remarkable of the Jain statues are the celebrated colossi of Southern India, the largest free-standing statues in Asia, which are three in number, situated respectively at Sravana Belgola in Mysore, and at Kārkala, and Yenūr (or Venūr) in South Kanara. All three, being set on the top of eminences, are visible for miles around, and, in spite of their formalism, command respectful attention by their enormous mass and expression of dignified serenity.