A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s5.16
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s5.16
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beards, the others, as in the medallion figured, are beardless. The bowl has not the conical form of the cups depicted at Ajaṇṭā, but the general resemblance of the figures to those of the Persians in Cave I at Ajaṇṭā is so strong that the work may be referred with some confidence to approximately the same period as the paintings, somewhere about a. d. 600. The bowl may have been made in either India or Persia.¹