A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c7.12

c7.12

that can make them useful for the student, they offer very curious subjects of enquiry to the scholar and archaeologist. The sculptures found in various parts of India, at Ellora, Elephanta, and other places, are of a strictly symbolical or mythological character. They usually consist of monstrous combinations of human and brute forms, repulsive from their ugliness and outrageous defiance of rule and even possibility.’¹