Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c17.30
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c17.30
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c17.30
VISHṆU—In the iconographic reorganisation of the auspicious signs and symbols the figure of Vishṇu was the earliest to be evolved and a focal one towards which everything seemed to flow to take its proper place. Vishṇu was said to have a universal form measuring earth and heaven with all the gods and Ṛishis worshipping him; then a human form with four or eight hands.