A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.38

c9.s2.38

Figure 43 gives a characteristic and well-preserved specimen of the bas-reliefs on the coping. The large fruit is that of the jack (*Artocarpus integrifolia*), and the deer are the spotted hog-deer kind (*Axis porcinus*). The artists who could design and execute such pictures in hard sandstone had no small skill. In general appearance they are not altogether unlike the much later reliefs from Boro-Būdūr in Java.