A History of Fine Art in India And Ceylon, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
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159) should be compared with the bronze ^ Raj-ndra-Choladeva I possessed a powerful fleet, b}' the aid of which he conquered Pegu. It is possible that he may have imported Javanese artists. In his time the Poro-Budur reliefs were nearly new, and their fame may have reached his ears. O)-, again, the Javanese artists may have come fiom the I'richinopoly District. SECT. VI SOUTHERN INDIA 225 representations of the same subject as illustrated and explained in later sections of this chapter. The ext...ra arms are so cleverly managed as to be hardly notice- able. The next illustration (Fig. 160) of Siva caressing Parvati is curious. In the third example (Fig. 161) the treatment of Siva's image reminds me of the best Javanese work, and I am not sure that it may not be superior to that. The whole figure, body, limbs* and head, is modelled with exceptional skill, and the expression of the face is pleasing. This group, in my judgement, is one of the Fig. 160. God and goddess (Siva and ParvalT) ; on north wall of great temple at Gangaikonda-Cholapuram.
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