A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.93

c9.s2.93

In Southern India the amount of early sculpture as yet discovered is extremely small. The Bhattiprolu *stūpa* in the Guntūr District, Madras, dating from about 200 B. C., and utterly destroyed in recent times, is known to have been once surrounded by a marble screen and decorated with accessory sculpture. But all is gone, and when Mr. Rea explored the site, his researches, although rewarded by important inscriptions, disclosed no sculpture worth mentioning.³