A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c23.4

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Baalbec, Corinthian columns at, 102; art at, 386. Bābar, buildings of, 406. Bābū, artist, 328. Babylonia, enamelled tiles of, 441. Babylonian civilization in India, 377. Bacchanalian sculptures at Mathurā, 134-9, 179. Bacchus, triumph of, 360; Aachen figures of, 381, 382. Bactria = Chinese Tahia (*ta-hsia*), 155. Badakshān, patera from, 360, 361. Bādāmī, mediaeval sculpture from, 208-10. Badāonī, Akbar's hostile critic, 458. *Badshāh nāmah*, cited, 415, 418 note. Bāgh, sculptures of Gupta age at, 178; frescoes at, 159, 275, 294, 295. Baghdad, architecture at, 392. Bahādur Singh, artist, 492. Bahā-ul-hakk, tomb of, 442. Bahmani Sultanate, 404. Bahraich, tomb of Sayyid Sālār at, 420. Baitāl Dēval temple at Bhuvanesvar, 191, 193. Bajna, painter from Khotan, 131, 313. Bakhirā, Asoka pillar at, 22, 62. Baldēo, artist, 343. Bali, Indian colonies in, 259, 261. Ballāri District, temples in, 44; *see* Bellary. Bamboo, origin of curved roofs, 18, 28, 67. Bannī Singh, Mahārāja, art patron, 342. Barberini diptych, 384. Bargāon = Nālandā, *q.v.*, 184. Barhut = Bharhut, *q.v.*, 68. Bäsäklik monastery, paintings at, 313. Basāwan, artist, 455, 458, 470, 471, 476, 495. Basilica, Buddhist church like, 19. Bas-reliefs, origin of Indian stone, 379. Batanmārā, Yakshī image at, 73, 74. Bathang, bronzes of, 198. Batiya Tissa = Bhātika Abhaya, *q.v.*, 92. Bāz Bahādur, pictures of, 484. Bedsā, early sculpture at, 84, 86. Begūr, battle relief at, 223. Bell, Mr. H. C. P., *Reports* by, 49 note. Bellary District, Vijayanagar in, 39; Chalukyan temples in, 227; *see* Ballāri. Bellini, Giovanni, compared with Ajantā artists, 292. Belūr, temples at, 40, 44. Benares, MSS. of *Rāmcharitmānas* at, 338; Aurangzēb's mosque at, 419. Bengal, cornice, 18, 419, 420; style of architecture, 28, 30, 398, 400. Bengālī Nationalist school of painting, 348-50. Berār, Vākātaka kings of, 275. Bernier, on Delhi elephants, 426; on position of Indian artists, 458.