A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.78
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.78
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Certain early bas-reliefs, dating probably from the first century B. C., discovered in the Kankālī mound near Mathurā, and apparently associated with the very ancient Jain *stūpa* which once existed there, are extremely curious for various reasons, and present remarkable forms not found elsewhere. As art they are far inferior in delicacy and definition to the work at Sānchī, the trees especially being sketched quite roughly. Fig. 49 represents the adoration paid to a *stūpa*, presumably Jain, by fabulous creatures, *suparṇas*, or harpies, and *kinnaras*, or centaurs.