History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c47.11

v2.c47.11

Our knowledge of the Buddhist plastic art of Udaygiri Lalitagiri and Ratnagiri and the Cuttack district is derived from the older accounts incorporated in Raja Rajendra Lala Mitra's account of the antiquities of Orissa, now described again by Prof. Haran Chandra Chakladar, M. A., of the Calcutta University, a collection of images recently acquired for the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Rai Bahadur Rama Prasad Chanda B. A., P. A. S. B., Superindent, Archaeological Section, Indian Museum, Calcutta, and a second acquired by Mr. Ajit Kumar Ghosh M. A., B. L. These sculptures fall into four separate divisions :—