Dobrovits Aladár szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 3-4. (Budapest, 1959)

HOPP FERENC KELETÁZSIAI MŰVÉSZETI MÚZEUM - Ervin Baktay: Report on a vovage of study to India 1956/57

Fig. 3. Napalese Temple in B

anaras monuments of Buddhistic importance which have not been transformed so relentlessly, are being visited by crowds of pilgrims as well. Fortunately, such overdone renovations are few and far between, which goes to prove that the majority of Indian archeologists and historians of art are, after all, quite up to their tasks. From Gorakhpur, in January 1957, 1 also visited Lalchnau where the monuments dating from the XVIII

th century are characteristic of the architecture of the period, carrying on the style of the Mughals, yet in a distinctly decadent manner (Fig. 3). The valuable material of the Museum did not change much since my previous visit, but it fully deserves being repeatedly studied. At the beginning of February I went to Banaras and spent there eight days, staying at the Hindu University. It was a very instructive experience. The new precincts of the University represent a veritable garden city ; the buildings constructed in a modernised Indian style are dispersed over a large area, among shady groves and broad expanses ; the place is so big that it is almost impossible to make the tour of it on foot, and the visitor finds it better to hire one of the cycle-rickshaws, the modern successors of the old time rickshaws drawn by panting „Kulis". The new University Museum of Indian Art can boast of exceptionally valuable specimens, and its Curators are experts of their profession. The same can be said of the lately established Sarnath Museum which houses a series