A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.37
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.37
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the days when Buddhism flourished than it has ever been since. The first medallion selected for illustration is a very funny picture of a tooth being extracted from a man’s jaws by an elephant pulling a gigantic forceps; and the second (Fig. 42) is nearly equally humorous. The stories alluded to are presumably traceable somewhere in a *Jātaka*.