A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c14.s2.8
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c14.s2.8
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The bulk of the paintings unquestionably must be assigned to the time of the great Chalukya kings, a. d. 550–642; but some may have been executed under the patronage of the earlier Vākāṭaka kings of Berār. A Vākāṭaka inscription exists in Cave XVI. It is unlikely that any can have been executed later than the second date named, when Pulakesin II was dethroned and presumably killed by the Pallava king of the South. The resulting political conditions must have been unfavourable for the execution of costly works of art dedicated to the service of Buddhism, the Pallava kings having been, as a rule, ardent worshippers of Siva. The latest pictures, those in Cave I, may be attributed, for reasons to be explained presently, to the years between a. d. 626 and 642. The related paintings at Bāgh in Mālwa may be dated at some time in the sixth century, or the first half of the seventh.