A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.15

c9.s2.15

The figures following (Figs. 34, 35) give specimens of the winged animals, borrowed from Western Asiatic, or perhaps Hellenistic art. Similar figures occur in the earliest of the western cave-temples, but are not to be found, I think, after the Christian era. They are used freely for decorative purposes, and if they had any definite symbolical meaning I do not know what it was.