A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.13

c9.s2.13

In Fig. 32 is shown a part of an animal frieze on the coping, very similar to what we shall meet later at Amarāvatī. The pillar panel gives an interesting picture of an early Buddhist chapel enshrining the symbol of the preaching of the Law. Images of Buddha do not occur at this period. The façade, with its curved roof, originally derived from a bamboo form, illustrates the architecture of the western cave-temples, and the origin of curved roofs.