Studies in Indian Art c13.s2.30

c13.s2.30

The last example (*Fig. 140*) showing a family of deer (height 16", breadth 16"), originates from the older temple at Nachna Kuthara and was found near it. Most probably it was fixed in the outer surface of the wall of the verandah. In a hilly terrain a male deer with two does and a young one is majestically seated in a reposeful attitude. The group represents a fine treatment of animal sculpture in early Gupta art of about the beginning of the 5th century A.D.*