Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s2.t1.3
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s2.t1.3
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c12.s2.t1.3
2. RELIGIOUS PERSONS :—The sculptures include figures of ascetics (parivrājaka) wearing matted locks and bark garments; fire altars point out that the ascetics were fire worshippers. One of them labelled dīrghatapasī shows a great Vedic teacher with his pupils receiving instruction in Vedic recitation. These figures show that the sculptors were quite competent to depict religious mendicants in their traditional garb and atmosphere of an Āśrama and if the artists had been asked to portray the Buddha in a human form they could have easily done so.