A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s1.18
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s1.18
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¹ This explanation of the symbolism was suggested by the discovery of rude symbolical bronze figures of the four animals in Ceylon (*post*, chap. vii, sec. 7). See the author's paper 'The Monolithic Pillars of Asoka' in *Z. D. M. G.*, 1911. The lion was also regarded as a symbol of Buddha himself.