A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.86
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.86
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¹ 66 caves, viz. 44 on Udayagiri, 19 on Khandagiri, and 3 on Nīlagiri. The inscription of King Khāravela in the Hāthī Gumphā, or Elephant Cave, is of the second century B. C., but not precisely dated, as formerly supposed (Fleet, *J. R. A. S.*, 1910, p. 242). See *Imp. Gaz.* (1908), *s. v.* Khandagiri; *Ann. Rep. A. S., India*, 1902–3, pp. 40–2. The best account of the caves is that by Bābū Monmohan Chakravarti in *Gaz. Purī District* (1908). See also Fergusson, *Hist. of Indian and Eastern Architecture*, 2nd ed. (1910), vol. ii, pp. 9–18.