Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s3.15
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s3.15
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The motif of the woman plucking flowers from a distended bough is met with on the toraṇa of Bharhut and Sanchi in the Śuṅga period and is continued on the railing pillars of Mathura during the Kushāṇa period. It also appears in a limited number of examples in Gandhāra art of the Kushāṇa age, but the weak treatment of the subject there betrays its having been imported from the East. We have in the Kāśikā an example of a game played by people of the North known as Jīva-putra-prachāyikā. Vātsyāyana in the Kāmasūtra mentions as examples of deśya krīḍās (local sports) similar names ending in aka suffix, e. g. Sahakāra-bhañjikā, Abhyūsha-khādikā, Udaka-kshveḍikā, Bisakhādikā, Aśokottamsikā, Pushpāvachāyikā, Chūta-latikā, Damanabhañjikā, Ikshubhañjikā, etc.