[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c15.15 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.15 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.15 - **Language:** English ### [c15.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c15.15) In Kashmīr, we are told, the earliest artists followed the style of the ‘Middle Country School of the Ancient West’. This obscure phrase, difficult to interpret, may refer to a Magadhan variation of the Rājputāna school of the ‘Ancient West’ founded by Sringadhara in the seventh century. May not the explanation be that Lalitāditya, the most powerful king of Kashmīr, who conquered Kanauj about a. d. 740, introduced into his ancestral kingdom artistic novelties from the conquered realm? - [Previous: c15.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c15.14) - [Next: c15.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c15.16) - [Up: c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c15) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c15.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c15.15) · Pramāṇa