Studies in Indian Art c7.s2.32
Studies in Indian Art c7.s2.32
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c7.s2.32
The art of the Sunga period is an art of folk inspiration, a documentation of popular life and cult beliefs, it is dominated by an abandon and freedom peculiar to sylvan deities, the Yakshas and the Nāgarājas. There is in it no urban tension or sophistication, nor is the moral severity of the Buddha's religion impressed on its countenance. The figure of the Yogī Buddha is, so to say, unwanted in that art; the Buddha permeates it only as an influence.