A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c23.6

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Caliphs = Khalīfs, *q. v.*, 392. Calligraphy, on coins, 421-4; as decoration, 428, 430; as an art, 452-4. Cambodia, Indian migration to, 260, 267. Cambodian architecture in Ceylon, 56; supposed influence at Agra, 411. Camel, drawings of, 311, 312, 480. Cameo, Indo-Muhammadan, 424. Capital, forms of, in Ceylon, 55, 56; of Asoka columns, 59-62, 378; fan-palm, 65, 66; modified Persepolitan, 70, 86; lion, 76; elephant and dwarf, 78; Ionic and Romano-Ionic, 101, 386; Indo-Corinthian, 102, 103, 126, 386; bell, 160; Gupta, 175; true Persian, 377. Car, processional, 24. Caracalla, Baths of, 102. Cardinal points, deviation from, 32. Castro, Father de, 417. Cat, drawings of, 484, 486. Catacombs, illustrations of Gandhāra art from the, 106, 109, 122. Centaur, Indian, 67, 68, 82, 384. Ceylon, art almost wholly Indian, v; no building earlier than Asoka in, 13; *dāgabas* of, 14; Jetawanārāma *dāgaba* in 17; few buildings earlier than sixth century in, 22; architecture in, 48-56; stone railings in, 50; Buddhist and Hindu temples in, 51, 246; circular shrines in, 52, 53; circles of columns in, 54; Cambodian buildings in, 55; relations of Asoka with, 57; independent of Asoka, 58; stelae, &c., in, 82, 88; sculpture abundant in, 86; early and mediaeval sculpture in, 87; portrait statues of kings in, 88; Buddhas in, 92; early kings of, 92 note; Kapila relief in, 93-5; moonstones in, 95; drawing-schools in, 168; mediaeval sculpture in, 241-58; sundry statues in, 241-4; bas-reliefs in, 244, 245;

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*makara toraṇa* in, 246; bronzes, 236, 248-58; small bronzes from, 256; Jambhala of, 258 note; early painting in, 272, 273, 295-302; Anurādhapura paintings in, 279, 298, 301; Sigiriya frescoes in, 295-300; paintings at Tamankaduwā in, 302; mediaeval painting in, 345; intaglio seal from, 354; ivories, 372. Chaitanya, ancient portraits of, Addenda. 'Chaitya-hall', Buddhist church, 9, 19. Chalukya dynasty, 40, 44, 159, 275; style, 39, 42, 44. Chambā State, wood-carving in, 366, 368. Chāmuṇḍa Rāya, minister, 268. Chandaka, Buddha's groom, 120, 122. Chandi Sewa, in Java, 261. Chandragupta, (1) Maurya emperor, 13, 57, 270; (2) II, Vikramāditya, of Gupta dynasty, 158, 159, 164, 170, 172; coins of (2), 352, 353. Chang-kien, mission of, 130. Chera dynasty, 220; territory, 248. Chezarla, Buddhist church at, 19 note. Chhaj Mal, artist, 492. Chhaju Lāl, artist, 342. Chhargaon, Nāga statue from, 138. China, Buddhism in, 131; influence of, 377, 450. Chinese architecture in Nepāl, 48; art, 3, 8, 129, 292, 293, 304, 313, 314, 451; dynastic dates, 130 note; Turkistan, painting and sculpture in, 8, 130, 303, 307-14. Chinghiz Khān, MS. history of, 450. *Chīnī* = *Kāshī tiles, q. v.*, 444. Chīnī-kā-Rauza, enamelled tiles of, 445, 446. Chiqqan Kōl, archaic Indian pictures at, 313. Chitarman, artist, 482. Chitōr, Town of Victory at, 202; Mokaljī's temple at, 203, 204; Rānā Amar Singh of, 426; Jaimall and Paltā, heroes of, 426. Chola dynasty, 220, 223. *Chorten* = *stūpa, q. v.*, 14.

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Chosroes II = Khusrū Parvīz, *q. v.*, 290 note. 'Choultrie', at Madura, 233. Christian subjects in art, 366, 369, 463, 472. Chukalokā, Yakshī, 73. *Cire perdue* process, 172. Clay-slate, material of Gandhāra sculpture, 99; of Rājmahāl sculpture, 185. 'Cobra' pattern, 95. Cochineal, pigment, 462. Coimbatore District, 248. Coins, best Hindu, 351-3; Muhammadan with figure types, 422, 423. Colour, on Ceylonese sculpture, 88; on Amarāvatī sculpture, 156. Colours, at Ajaṇṭā, 278, 279; at Sīgiriya, 298; at Anurādhapura, 301; *see* Pigments. Columns, Buddhist and Jain, 20-2; at Ābū, 32, 34; in Ceylon, 54; of Asoka, 59, 64, 377; at Bharhut, 70; Indo-Hellenic, 101; Gupta, 174; spiral, 386; *see* Pillars. Comic scenes at Bharhut, 72. Composite style, 419. Conjeeveram = Kānchī, *q. v.*, 220. Constantinople, or Rūm, 417. Coomaraswamy, Dr., on Indian and Sinhalese art, 3, 12, 127, 128, 346. Copper, statue of Buddha, 171, 172; statuettes in Tibet, 198; vessels, 364. Copto-Alexandrian art, 380, 382. Corinthian capitals, 101; *see* Indo-Corinthian. Cornice, Bengālī curvilinear, 398, 419, 420; in Bījāpur style, 405. Cotton, Tibetan paintings on, 315; Mongol paintings on, 454.