The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s10.18

c7.s10.18

Cathedrals of Rheims and Chartres are to the West, are perhaps to India the *Śikharas* of the Orissan and Chandel temples. The painting of this time imitates the great examples of Ajantā, but where the latter create large frescoes of rich composition here there have remained only small miniatures in the manuscripts of the Buddhist *Śāstras* in honour of the primeval mother *Prajñāpāramitā*, small pictures of gods, goddesses and saints as much drawn after traditional patterns, as the sculpture of the temples is forming even the simplest details according to the rule of the *Śilpaśāstras*.”³⁶