Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c13.s8.9
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c13.s8.9
- Language
- English
c13.s8.9
¹¹⁸ The Kinnara motif in decorative art is mentioned by the Sinhalese painters. The Kinnaras are beings, human above and bird-like below, like a siren or harpy, with human arms and shoulders and the wings not large enough for flight, A K Coomaraswamy Med.oeval Singhalese Art, Gloucestershire, 1908, p 81f