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0346 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 346 (Color Image)

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To remove any portion of these interesting frescoes proved quite
impracticable, owing to the friable condition of the plaster on which
they were painted. Nor can it, in view of the faded state of the
colours, be surprising that the photographs which I secured of
them do not permit of satisfactory reproduction by any mechanical
process. But drawings have been made from these as well as
other photographs of Dandan-Uiliq frescoes by the hand of my
artist friend, Mr. F. H. Andrews. These, when published in my
Detailed Report, will, I hope, render it easier to judge of the re-
markable resemblance which, in style of composition and the
drawing of figures, exists between these frescoes and the later of
the Indian paintings in the cave temples of Ajanta.
Little, indeed, of early Indian painting has survived in India
itself. Hence all the more interest must attach to the specimens
which the frescoes and painted tablets of Dandan-Uiliq shrines
have preserved for us of that selfsame Indian art as transplanted
to the Buddhist region of Khotan.