Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.109
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.109
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THE BAKHIRĀ LION-CAPITAL :—The shaft of the pillar is ponderous and somewhat dwarfish in proportion ; the lion figure is clumsy and crude in style, the animal being uncomfortably balanced on the abacus, the attitude being wooden and artificial. No doubt the sculptor has handled the monolithic mass, still he misses to evolve an ascending rhythm in the several parts of the pillar as distinguished by the best of Aśokan art. [Fig. 46 a].