Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s2.t1.55

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The Bharhut masters have gone into great length to illustrate the Kalpalatā motif producing ornaments, clothes, wines and lac-dye [Figs. 70-1]. For example, necklaces of three pearl strings [Fig. 72a], six strings [Fig. 72b], double triratna necklace pendent [Figs. 72c-d], flat studded chaplet [Fig. 72e], earrings with a flat cubical and ponderous top and a spiral lower portion named as prākāra-vapra-kuṇḍala [Fig. 69a], ear-rosettes [Fig. 72f], girdles [Figs. 72g-h], clustered spiral anklets [Fig. 69c], scarves [Fig. 72i], Dhotī [Fig. 72j], jack-fruit-shaped containers of wine [Figs. 70-71], mango-shaped containers of lac-dye [Figs. 70-71]. In one illustration [Fig. 73] we find pearl festoons, anklets and girdle hanging from the mouth, tusk and trunk of an elephant which was an ancient motif in royal palaces for display of ornaments.