Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s4.86
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s4.86
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The sculptures, paintings and the architectural forms of Śuṅga art show a complete mastery of the earliest religious traditions and folk cults and their integration to a new movement of exceptional richness and dynamism. In addition to the three art forms mentioned above there were numerous centres of terracotta manufacture in the Śuṅga age at Mathura, Ahichchhatra, Bairāṭ, Kauśāmbi, Vārāṇasī, Pāṭaliputra and Chandraketugaṛh (24 parganas, Bengal) of which a fuller study gives proof of wide art consciousness cultivated in the form of a broad-based æsthetic culture all over North India and the Deccan.