Studies in Indian Art c7.s2.29

c7.s2.29

The net contribution of this period was the emergence and crystalization of motifs and patterns of architecture and decoration in tangible form. Wood formed the principal medium of carving and for architectural purposes: the carpenter and the wood worker are referred to with greater esteem than the stone mason. The gateways and the railings executed in the Sunga period derived their ancestry from this earlier age. It was an art of wood transferred to stone.