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Show ]!)8 IIINDOO AND CHINESE excellontrolioft:~; which may be placed amon()' the bcs.t pro~uctions of art. Tho following drawmg of a colos al Fig. 91. head of Buddha [01]214 in a vol ani.c stone, now in the Glyptothcc of Munich, may give an idea of tho elegance and feminine character of those sculptures. Tho great bulk of the idols, in tho collection of the British Mus uro, of the East India Jiouso, and of king Louis at Munich, belong to another style, which we call tho :florid style, characterized in its best specimens by an elaborate elegance, n.ud often by affectation of sweetness, with a profusion of ornaments which DunnHA. encumbers the figures. Fig. 92, from a bronze of tho British Museum, rcvrosonting Lakshmi, the Goddess of Beauty, or IIindoo V onus, is a fair specimen Fig. 92. of this style; which belongs to the XVth and LAKBIIMT. XVIth century of our era, and is still imitated by tho modern: artists ofinclia. There arc some rude figure!:!, of an entirely difl'erent style, in soJno of tho MuRoums of Europe; and again others vidently archaic in their typo: still, all of them arc characterized hy tho same long pointed nose, tho same mild eye, and the same sweetness of oxprot~sion in the oval faco,-whicldorm stiJl tho distinctive marks of the high castes of llindostan. It is peculiarly interesting to see a school of art, so eminently fcminin , apply itself to the servir. o of a more martial race; trying to represent tho fi aturcs and tho court-life of the Turanian DyJlastics, established in th XVIl-XVliith century all over the peninsula. The miniatut ·e-paintino-s of the time of Sluth ,JeMn, J changie, Al ~bar, and Aurongzcb, ar really admi rablo. Whether they rcpl'CR nt the splendor of a gorg ous court, or portray scenes of domcsti life, thoro is Ruch a gentle delicacy of feeling display din them, such a mod st grace in tho attitud s, and such a charm, specially in the f male forms, that they are as pleasing, even to l~urop au taste, aR the tales of the Arabian Nigllts. Aucl yet thoro is no 1 crspcctivc to be met with in those paintings; the manner of shading tho :figures is unnatural; the costume is strange, and the grouping somewhat awkward. All this is 2H 0'l'Ub!Alt FRANK, Ind. l!fytltologic; an<.l Sm Sl'Am'Olll> l'tAI•'I'LFJB, .Tnva. CIVILIZATIONS AND ART. 199 eminently IIindoo ; but the features of the persons represented mark their foreign origin. Tho 1 ikon ss of a prince of tho house of Timur [92], probably Darab tho brother of Aureugzcb, on a sardonyxcameo of my collection, shows a Turanian cast of features. }"our portraits ofMol1amrocdan p1·inccs and statesmen in India, of the time of Aurengzeb (1G58-1707),-scl ctccl from a large collection of likenesses painted by contemporary llincloo arti ts and now adorning my Indian Mu eum-arc most remarkable for their excellent characterization of the diftcrent races of tho Muslim aristocracy in India, Fig. 92. during tho }..rvllth century. llAli JmrAN !NniAN PxtiNOE, (J>ul8zlc'IJ C'oll.) [93], the Grand Mogul of Delhi, from 1628 to 1658, is the grandson of Akbar the Great, who was grandson to Babur,-foundcr of the dynasty of the Moguls, which gave an unintcrruvtccl succCI:lRion of six great rul L'S to India, from 1494 to 1707. Babur, a Turkoman from FcrghU.na, was the fourth in closeout from 'l'imur-len(J"; and, though promi cuous polygamy is apt to d stroy the national type of any race, we still behold, in this portrait of Shah J chan, the old Tumnian chn.ractcr, resembling tho portraits of tho Partldan ldngs. KnA.N Ku.ANNA, tho encral-in-Chiof of the Sultan of Bccjapoore in the Dekhan, is a TaFig. !)8. SHAll Jl!HIAN. mul convert to Islam. [ co his portrait, sl ightly enlarged, tinted to give tho color of his skin, in Gliddon's "EthnooTaphic Tableau" (No. 46, Jiindoo,) at the end of this volume.] Tic rcpr s nts the aboriginal negroid (Dravidian) race of tho southern table-lands ofHindostan; not to be confounded with tho Brahman race of the Oa11g tic valleywhich is not alJOriginal, but a conquering race coming originally from beyond the llindoo Kush, and closely allied to tho Arin.ns of Persia. Khan Khanna's Chief, MAHMOOD ADrr, SHAH [94], of B cjapoorc, claimed closeout from the present Osman lees. His anc sto r, Yussuf Khan (1501), founder of the empire of Ticcjapoor , having been the son of Sultan Amurath II., of Anatoli a, hiRround 'l'uranian skull is still more characteristic than tbat of Shal1 J han. SuAII MmZA [as such he stands in the "Ethnographic Tableau," (No. 23, Uzbelc Tata1·)], tho Chancellor of the kino·dom of Golconda, iRan Uzbek 'fartar: and MoLLAH R1hmA [95], his chief clerk, camlOt |