Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s4.85
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s4.85
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The above caves in Orissa form part of a countrywide art movement in the Śuṅga period ranging from Saurāṣṭra to Kaliṅga as its two principal peripheries and the movements of Bharhut and Sanchi as its heart. The Śuṅga period was an age of intense art creativity of which remains have been found at Nagarī near Chittore in the form of the Nārāyaṇa-vāṭaka with its stupendous stone railing; at Mathura the Mahāsthāna shrines of Bhagavān Vāsudeva erected in the time of Soḍāsha; at Besnagar in the form of the Heliodoros column; at Ajanta in the Chaitya Halls Nos. 9 and 10 with paintings; at Bhājā with sculptures; at Bharhut, Sanchi and Bodhgaya with Stūpas, gateways and railings and at Kumārīparvata in Orissa with rock-cut excavations as described above and also in distant Amaravati in Andhra where the earliest movement of Stūpa building began about the 2nd century B. C.