Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.24
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.24
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c11.24
The second truth clear to him as basic to Dharma Chakra was the fourfold pattern of individual life, society and cosmos symbolised as the four sides of the Anotatta or Mānasarovara lake, each marked by one Great Animal (Mahā Ājāneya Paśu). The tradition of the four animals had come down right from the Indus Valley and was deeply ingrained in popular consciousness and accepted by them as an essential element of cult-worship.