Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.165
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.165
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(6) The Persian and the Mauryan capitals also show marked difference. The former are crowned with a cluster of stylised palm leaves and consists of two human-headed bulls or lions seated back to back, or by an inverted cup and the whole shows projecting double volutes. These elements do not find exact counterparts in the Mauryan capitals which show animal figures but not human-headed and the so-called bell form is covered by a stylised lotus petals. The crowning abacus and its decoration as found in Mauryan capitals are absent in Achaemenian art.