Birdwood, George C. M. (George Christopher Molesworth), Sir, 1832-1917 · [London] : Published for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall · leaf 548
338 - INDUSTJUAL AliTS OF INDIA. palm and its fruit, by the lotus and its bud, and by the lotus flower and a bunch of grapes, or the lotus flower and a bull’s head ; sometimes the flower by the papyrus head. In Owen … Jones’ Grammar of Ornametit, Plate 4, Fig. 6, the ornament [30], which looks like a lotus-headed form of some sort is proved to be a date, by the rippled mass of red and green hanging down one side of it, representing the ripe fructiflcation of the date bursting from its spathe. That the ripple is…
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