A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.26

c9.s2.26

The railing, constructed after the usual pattern, in a highly developed form, was extremely massive, the pillars being 7 feet 1 inch in height, and each of the coping stones about the same in length. The sculptures of the coping were devoted mainly to the representation of incidents in the *Jātakas*, or tales of the previous births of the