A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s2.17
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c19.s2.17
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Bernier was told that the riders represented the brothers Jaimall and Paltā, the brave heroes of the defence of Chitōr in 1568, who 'with their still braver mother, immortalized their names by the extraordinary resistance which they opposed to the celebrated Ecbar. . . . It is owing to this extraordinary devotion on their part that their enemies have thought them deserving of the statues here erected to their memory.'