Studies in Indian Art c9.s3.24

c9.s3.24

A representation of the Uttarakuru land is probably what we find at Sanchi carved on the western face of the western pillar of the south gateway of the Great Stūpa (*Marshall, 'Monuments of Sanchi', Vol. I, p. 144; Vol. II, Pl. XIXa*). In several undulating bands of a lotus creeper (one of which is reproduced here Figure 32) are youthful couples engaged in music and pleasure surrounded by birds and animals and seated under the shades of boughs overladen with costly ornaments of many kinds.