Page 22 - Madhu Jagdhish

Indian art was not always solely hieratic,—it

seemed so only because it is in the temples

and cave cathedrals that its greatest work

survived; as the old literature testifies, as we

see from the Rajput and Mogul paintings, it

was devoted as much to the court and the

city and to cultural ideas and the life of the

people as to the temple and monastery and

their motives.

(CWSA, 20: 126)