A list of the objects of antiquarian interest in the Lower Provinces of Bengal

by Bengal

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. ...are largely met with, and bases for these, of equally elaborate designs, are also abundant. Fragments of mouldings, friezes, architraves, and other architectural stones are to be met with in almost every hut, stuck in the mud wall, over an area of five miles around the sacred spot. These prove the former existence of a considerable number of stone temples or other buildings in the neighbourhood of the Great Temple. The stones used for these works of art are granite, grey sandstone, basalt, and the dark blue potstone for which Graya is so famous. The works in granite are the oldest, and they are at the same time the roughest. The other stones came into use successively in the order named, and neatness and artistio excellence followed the same order. For boldness and freedom of execution, however, the carvings on the granite pillars of Asoka do not yield to the most finished work on the softest potstone. On the contrary the latter is thoroughly conventional, whereas the former display a considerable amount of natural grace and freedom of action. CO 3 Gaya... Barabar Hills, in Jehanabad Sub-division. Object. Temple and Caves. Description and history of the object. The highest peak of these hills is crowned by a temple of great antiquity, sacred to Sidheswara, whioh contains a linga, said to have been placed there by Bara Rajah, the Asur King of Dinagepore, whose bloody wars with Krishna still live in the traditions of the people. To the south, and near the foot of this hill, the path up which is freely adorned by images of all kinds, lies a small reoess enclosed on two sides by the mountain, on the third by an artificial barrier of stone, and on the fourth by a long low ridge of granite. Here in the solid rook have been cut the remarkable...

40 pages, Paperback

Published September 13, 2013

About the author

Bengal is a French comics creator. Born in 1976 in the Rhône-Alpes region of France, he currently lives and works in Reims, in the Champagne-Ardenne region.

Bengal credits his father for introducing him to comics at a young age, with such classic Franco-Belgian titles as Les Tuniques Bleues (The Blue Tunics), Jérémiah, and The Scrameustache . A fan of both French bandes dessinées and Japanese mangas, his appreciation for these diverse styles is evident in his own work.

Before becoming a writer and illustrator of comics, he worked for four years at the video game developer Darkworks. He then worked at the French comics workshop L'Atelier 510 TTC for three years; it was there that he met writer John-David Morvan in 1996. He has since collaborated with Morvan many times: on the two-volume series Meka (2003–2005), the one-shot T.O.O. (The Only One) in 2005, and the five-volume Naja (2008–2011). In 2004, he illustrated the chapter pages for the first volume of Les chroniques de Sillage (The Chronicles of Wake), a spin-off of the Science Fiction series Sillage (Wake); the following year he illustrated the short story Double jeu (Double Game), written by series creators Morvan and Philippe Buchet, for the second volume.

In 2007, Bengal collaborated with comics creators Alessandro Barbucci and Canepa Barbara for a short story titled Like a Virgin, written by Barbucci, included in Sky-Doll: Spaceship Collection .

Bengal's first solo effort is the manga-inspired High Fantasy Luminae: La dame perdue (The Lost Lady), the first book in what is planned as an ongoing series, was published in 2011.

While much of his work has been published only in France, Bengal's short story Formidable was included in the first volume of the comics anthology Flight , published in 2004 by Image Comics in the United States.