A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c14.s1.3

c14.s1.3

These pictures, apparently executed in the customary Indian method of fresco, which will be explained presently, are divided into concentric circles by bands of red and yellow, sometimes enriched with a geometrical design, these circles seemingly being again subdivided into panels. The general nature of the subjects of the four best preserved panels, copies of which are not available, can be understood from the following brief description:—