. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . versionhardly appears reconcilable with the presence of Cama, the Hindoo god of love; who, inhis person and attributes, appears on the right of the group, and whose presence couldhardly be compatible with such a disposition of a wife and children. However wideeither of these traditions may fall from the intention of the artist by whom theses
. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . versionhardly appears reconcilable with the presence of Cama, the Hindoo god of love; who, inhis person and attributes, appears on the right of the group, and whose presence couldhardly be compatible with such a disposition of a wife and children. However wideeither of these traditions may fall from the intention of the artist by whom thesesingular sculptures were wrought from the living rock, there is nothing now by which lightcan be thrown upon their history; and visitors to Ellora are generally more inclined towonder at the skill of the workman, than to penetrate the mists that obscure the precisemeaning of his design. Moreover, there is a degree of repulsiveness in the idea thusembodied (whatever may have been its origin, or the actual meaning of the sculptor),that combines, with the surrounding gloom, and the mysterious accessories of the cavernitself, to prevent individuals of mere ordinary nerve from dwelling upon a subject sohideous in conception and ghastly in eflfect. ^ ^ m.
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