A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s1.28

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Mr. Griffiths thought that he could discern marks of Chinese influence in the paintings at Ajaṇṭā; and he may be right, although such marks are not very distinct, and may, perhaps, be explained as derived from the common stock of Asiatic art. However that may be, the art of Ajaṇṭā certainly produced no effect upon the general development of painting in China; and in Japan the only conspicuous instance of imitation of the Ajaṇṭā style is the wall-painting in the temple of Hōriūji at Nara, supposed by some critics to date from A. D. 607, but according to others about a century later.²