Fergusson, James: History of Indian and Eastern architecture (Band 1) (London, 1910)

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BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE.

Book I.

Besides these there are representations of the chase, processions,
dancing, and domestic scenes of various kinds. In fact such
a series of sixteen bas-reliefs, one over another, is hardly known
to exist anywhere else, but is here only an appropriate part
of an exuberance of sculptural ornamentation hardly to be
matched, as existing in so small a space, in any other building
of its class.

i2i, Corinthian Capital from Jamalgarhi, (From a Photograph,)

122. Corinthian Capital from Jamalgarhi. (From a Photograph.)1

The architecture ot this monastery seems to have been of
singular richness. General Cunningham brought away a dozen
of capitals of the Corinthian order, and others exist in the
Lahor Museum. As will be seen from the last two illustrations
(Nos. 121, 122), they are unmistakably classical, but of a form
to which it is not at first sight easy to assign a date. They
are more Greek than Roman in the character of their foliage,

1 The modillion cornice, though placed on the lower capital in the photograph,
belongs in reality to another part of the building.