Annual Report on Kannada Research in Bombay Province For the Year 1939-40

He explained the Vedic and Puranic Literatures as embodying ancient historical traditions of bgone ages traced the growth of civilisation from the earliest recorded times to the beginning of the Christian Era illustrating the points of contact beween the East and the West and exhibited by means of the epidiascope the photographs of archaeological and architectural monuments in the Deccan [...] These paintings resemble in delineation of the shades of expression and drawing the fresco paintings in the caves at Ajantä which are supposed to date during the period of the later members of the Valdtaka dynasty of Central India and on account of this similarity they may be assigned to the period contemporaneous with the excavation of the third cave i.e. [...] Similarly on the doorframes of the same shrine are cut in high relief two figures one male and the other female the former holds in his raised left hand a twig of a tree and in his right a mace while the latter holds a pitcher in her right hand—the left hand resting on the top of the mace held by the seated or half-standing figure of a dwarf who has the face of a horse and the body from the nec [...] This is one of the exquisitely beautful sculptures found in this part and may very well be compared for the epressiveness of art and proportions of limbs with the female deities in the rock-cut caves of Badami assigned to the 6th century A. D. But the exberance of the flourishes of the sculptural art lavished on the decorations of the prablicivali and the image of the deity suggest a lat [...] The sculpture may be assigned to the period of the early Chalukyas The vigour of expression on the face and the anatomic proportions of the limbs depicted which are remarkably in evidence in this sculpture are to be seen in the sculptures of the early Chalukya and Pallava periods.