Studies in Indian Art c14.s3.1

c14.s3.1

This nice lintel (ht. 11"; length 2'6"; width 11") originating from a village named Jhivarhedi, 16 miles south of Hardwar, is now deposited in the Gurukul Kangari Museum at Hardwar. It is a welcome addition to a style of art, of which only few specimens are known in north Indian sculpture. The whole scene is very animated and the composition of the figures is rendered with great mastery and success. The force and dynamic application of power as appropriate to the occasion of the churning of the ocean are manifest in every detail of the sculpture, specially in the poses of the figures on the proper right side (*Fig. 158*).