A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s9.8
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s9.8
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A passing reference may be made to the five groups of Jain images cut in relief on the face of the steep cliff below the fort of Gwālior, all executed between a. d. 1440 and 1473, of which several are colossal, one being 57 feet high. The south-western group includes a recumbent image of a sleeping female, 8 feet in length, and a com- [Figure: PLATE LIII. Jain colossus at Kārkaḷa, South Kanara, Madras. (From *Ind. Ant.*, vol. ii, p. 353, lithogr. plate, by permission.)]