Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 293
subjugationof Persia by Alexander the Great, who is said to havepushed his conquests as far as the banks of the Indus. The next great immigration that we hear about is thatof the Southern Dravidian people, who crossed the LowerIndus to Guzerat, and in course of time had settled them-selves in the… … Fig. 324.—Onianitnt from Asokas Pillar, Allahabad. (B.) Christian era. These people occupied nearly the westernhalf of India, and erected buildings from Mysore in thesouth to Delhi in the north. This architecture is known asthe Chalukya and Jaina styles. The fourth great immi-gration was that of…
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