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A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c23.6.1

A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c23.6.1

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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;