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 702 TTTE IXDIAtf AXTIQUABY. A. .' . : : i t its evidenc* on which our knowledge of that ■ 1 h mainly based, Tarauatha's real mtmo wm Knn-jnjing ; ha was horn in lo7o f and composed bjfl in IfiOBi He was & monk of the Junaug school, winch after T so ngkap&'s reforms was numbered among the heterodox school*, i.'-"i i if the " Yel- >r> tuitros," tliuugh ul u luter period, after TAraiiAthu's death, it was attached to that meet. /in with the lost chapter of the book, as porhnjia tbe most generally interesting. L— On liudtlhut Art. "In former days human inastftrs, who were •veil with mirocutou .oroducwt fisto- nialjiMur waxki of art. Ii b tfpnaata stated in tlur Fmujru-dfyaiHtf an J other workB that Kb* wall-paintings, tfco, of these masters -were rach ii* to deceive by their likeness to the i tilings depicted. I centuries after the departure of thy Teacher ninny such wasters flourished. After ttugr bud ceased to flourish, i!i!iu« umaicn* wj4»eared who were Gods in hu- man form ; these creeled the eight wonderful ■a* of Magadh n, — the Mi it .'. l-ud h i t M a n j n sr i d n n d n I* U t k vara, tfcu., and made many other objects. In thy time of king A s o k n, JfaJcsjlft* artbnus erected the chaitytu of -.'lit great places, the inner enrk'-urr ot V a j r a s a n a, itc. In the time of N a g A r j una also many work* wero performed by Xagn artisans- Thus the works of the Gods, Yakskas, aud Nagas for many years deceived men by their reality. When in process of time all tlua censed to bo, it seemed an if the knowledge of an had vanished from among men. Then fop a long course of years appeared many nrtLttie effort* brought to light by the striving of the individual genius, bnt no fixed school or nu.xfo- siou of artists. Later, in tho time of king Bit d d h a p 11 k k h i, the hcnlptitre and paint- ing of tho artist Bimban&rn were specially wonderful and resembled those, early works or hLh; the number of his followers was ex- ugly great, and as he was born in Ml a ga - d h n the artist* of his ncltuol woro styled aI a. • la another uUm A f 0>a n dawribwi i* bnTliiT^i'JI nan yftMpJM uuacWd UcMjn«t tlu« mm* Yakiha ■ :. f 1 u •• i ,■ hit, awl fnifgwt* Utftf tho* weh> K,V. trma Otmbi. TV author, hcrtrowr, r!«arl r w* tint YJnA« u *,pr™tar»I bws-a rao, of tam*-^, I.. laaaj »mpr in which tba wiint m uatd ; n (h« /w/. v p»d diial inar b» Mix! for Vawaui*'. lactam rf «, b«r in maid taut Tataaitha ak> MoribwVSSi dbyadcua Artist*. In the time uf kingSilu bred an especially si lines tor of tins gods* Imni iu Marvv.'n', named S r )lig| d Ii a l*a | ha left behind hint puititiuga and other muster- pieces like those prod need by tho Yukshaa. Those who followed his lead were en Hi" I 1 1 1- - ent school En the time of kings UovnpAla mid ^rhuuut Dhuruiupulu lived in Vn- rend ru [Northern Bengal] au especially skil- fnl artisc, named h i m A n ; his son was K i t - pit to; both these produced many works m oast metal, as well as seulptm-es and paioj which reicnihled the works of thu Xdgaa. Tho father and son gave rise to distinct schools y as the son livod iu Hflugal, the east imagos of gods produi-ed hy their foQowcrS WWO Ottllod gOC ttio I'asteru style, whatever might be tho birth* place of their actual designers. In pamtiti followers of the father were calli i-.lern school; those of the nan, a*, tiny were nioit nu- merous in Jlugadhn, were called fnlJowcrs of the Mt a d h y a d c sa school of paiulimj. Nepal, the earlier schools of art resembled t he * Old West school, hut in tln« coarse of time a peculiar JN'cpfilesc school formed itself, which in painting and aurtimjrcsomh[< the East- ern schools ; the latest artisb> have i character. In K u i> ui i r too. there woro in for- mer times followers of the Old Western school of Madhyadeia -, kt^r on, a certain II a s u r it j a foil n ded a new mu ting and sen 1 [ vvSiich is now called the iuJrniir Bchooli Vlier* ever Buddliism prevailed, skilful religiona artists wure found, whlln wherever the Mice [Maiuunadans j ruled, they chaappeared ; where, again, the T i r t h y a doctrines [orthodox Hin- dnism j prevailed, unskilful artiftts caittu to Lho front. Although if» 1» a kn m ITJurma] an southern count ric» thu making of images is still going on, no HpecimenB of tho works nppi-ar to have reached Tibet. Tn the Soath. three artists have had many followers : J ttya, Paro j n i st, and Vi jay a." II — I'fyitu. (From Chapter U A coiupauion of king Knuda was tbg Dntli man P ii n i n i t who waa iiorn in the west ihweiifUtt thn AffM, wao yv» wltaoat chwbt fcjmrH. caur fr»t*n»tjr m K a >ma r npfomA Ur t# tuul* i ' • wcttmtm ufthn nmka^od*. Worta Ek* iW ton.: ■*»""■*•■ whiph ilionr» sa obrbio* Kacmir iufliintu-.-. w.-r* feroli*lii) virnksl to Nfljfta t»elitt«<iU j an Qtvno* uakfjuiri •cktuJ, into* ul «lu*n tunocbi-t' am twhie. in hwcit 1—tl* nf lurtun, |«piMUuia4 ihii Vnk.nl* art, it n-nuuiw only tu •.•certain what worka wvre werib. ju. and wlw wvy W(jpo.