A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c23.89
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c23.89
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*Rāgmālā* pictures, 330-3, 336. Rāhu, eclipse demon, 322 note. Railing, stone, plain, as at Sānchī, 16, 74; ornate, as at Amarāvatī, 16, 150-3; in Ceylon, 50, 53; at Besnagar, 66; at Bodh-Gayā, 67; at Bharhut, 68-73; at Mathurā, 82, 140-2, 144; round cenotaph in Tāj, 437. Rājarāja, Chola king, 36, 223. Rājarānī, temple and sculptures, 26, 191. Rājasimha, Pallava king, 36, 220. Rāja-varma, Rāja, artist, 347. Rājendra Choladeva I, Chola king, 36, 224. Rājgīr, female figure from, 164; mediaeval Buddha from, 189, 190. Rājpūt kingdoms, 391. Rājputāna, Jains numerous in, 11; temples in, 32, 35; sculpture in, 202-8; schools of art in, 305, 307. Rām, artist, 470. Rāma, picture of childhood of, 338, 340. Rāmachandra, bronze statuette of, 239. Rāmaswamy Naidu, artist, 347. *Rāmāyana*, mentions paintings, 272; Col. Hanna's copy of, 456. *Rāmcharit-mānas*, illustrations of, 338-41. Rāmesvaram, temple and sculptures at, 38, 39, 235, 236. Rāmgarh Hill, paintings at, 273, 274. Rāmnagar, brick temple at, 22. Rāmpurwā, Asoka pillars at, 59, 60. *Rangāmezī*, meaning of, 462 note. Rānī Gumphā cave, 84. Ranjīt Singh, portrait of, 492. Raphael, Persian tradition of, 466. Rāshtrakūta king, 39. Rāvana, under the mountain, 182; penance of, 226, 227. Ravi-varma, Rāja, artist, 236, 346. *Razmnāmah*, 328, 456, 464 note, 470. Relics, veneration of, 10. Religions, three leading Indian, 9. Rembrandt, referred to, 484. Renaissance painters, 468. 'Renunciation, Great', in sculpture, 120, 122. Reynolds, Sir Joshua, on Indo-Persian drawings, 458, 482. 'Rider' motive, 382. Ridi Vihāra, paintings at, 346. River goddesses, 160, 162. Roll, undulating, *see* Garland. Roman empire, 126; pantheon, 127; Ionic capital, 356 note. Romano-Ionic capital, 101. Rome, Persian art-students at, 466. Roshan, Raqam, calligraphist, 452 note. Rukn-ud-dīn, tomb of, 442. Rūm = Turkey or Constantinople, 417. Rummindeī, Asoka pillar, 59, 60; = Lumbinī garden, 120. Rupee, value of, 416 note. Rūpmatī, pictures of, 484. Ruwanweli *dāgaba*, paintings at, 272, 301.