A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s5.39
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s5.39
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Plate LXIX is a queer composition, apparently intended to serve as a frontispiece. The figure under the tree in the left upper corner is labelled as a portrait of the poet, but how far it can claim to be a likeness I cannot say. In the right upper corner his teacher (*guru*) is depicted reading aloud to a party of disciples. Lower down, we find the magic cow, Kāmadhenu, a great snake, Rāma and Sītā, with various other persons and objects mentioned in the poem. The drawing is stiff and formal, and the Chitrakūt hill is represented in a purely conventional manner.