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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 184

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the extensive court, leaving the entire temple stand-ing within it, must have been a task of enormous difficulty. More-over, at Ellora the interior was not neglected, as was the case inthe before-mentioned rathas, and the rigid symmetry of the originaldesign excluded all adaptation of the plan,… … Fig. 81.—The so-called Rathas of Mahavellipore. passed by the sculptured decorations of the free-standing Dravidiantemples, which were so overloaded as to render a systematic de-scription of them here impossible. The most fantastic decorations,consisting of floral and animal forms as well as of…

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