A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.82

c8.82

It would be easy to fill many pages with more or less similar specimens of work of cloying richness to be found in Rājputāna and Gūjarāt, but the two choice illustrations selected must suffice. I am tempted, however, to add an unpublished photograph (Plate VIII) of a charming temple of the Sun at Osia in the Jodhpur State, Rājputāna, lately brought to notice by Mr. D. R. Bhandarkar, and treated in a much simpler fashion. Osia possesses no less than twelve large ancient temples, some Jain and some Brahmanical, and all, apparently, dating from the eighth century. The residents of the town show their appreciation of these works of art by using them as public latrines.²