This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...remains entire; a pool of water penetrates from it into a dark cavern far under the rock; whether natural or artificial is not determined. A small corresponding temple on the left side, contains two baths, one of them elegantly finished: the front is open, and the roof supported by pillars of a different order ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...remains entire; a pool of water penetrates from it into a dark cavern far under the rock; whether natural or artificial is not determined. A small corresponding temple on the left side, contains two baths, one of them elegantly finished: the front is open, and the roof supported by pillars of a different order from those in the large temple; the sides are adorned with sculpture, and the roof and cornice painted in mosaic patterns; some of the colours are still bright. The opposite bath of the same proportions, is less ornamented; between them a room VOL. I. T 274 SCULPTURED MOUNTAINS. detached from a rock contains a colossal representation of the lingam. Several small caves branch out from the grand excavations. I remained on one occasion four days at the Isle of Elephanta, and paid more than one visit to the sculptured mountains of Canara, sketching the most striking features of these wonderful works. I once accompanied an eminent English artist on his first visit to the Elephanta; he had seen the most striking objects of art in Italy and Greece, but never any thing which filled his mind with such extraordinary sensations as to the general effect. After staying until a late hour he reluctantly accompanied iue to the hospitable mansion of an English officer at Butcher's Island; whither we repaired every evening, and returned on the following morning to revisit the Elephanta, as the nocturnal damps render it dangerous to sleep in the caverns, and the cottages of the natives cannot accommodate Europeans. However these gigantic statues, and others of similar form, in the caves of Ellora and Salsette, may astonish a common observer, the man of taste looks in vain for proportion of form and expression of countenance. The Elephanta caves especially...
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