Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c5.21
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c5.21
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c5.21
SYMBOLICAL THEMES—Indian art truly reflects the deep relationship between ideas and life. It fulfilled a real need. If the wide gamut of life is mirrored anywhere it is truly so in the case of art. A special feature which enriches the meaning and purpose of art was to present a synthesis or mingling of the cults dear to the common man with the higher religion of the Buddha, Mahāvīra, Śiva or Viṣṇu with all the details of their lives and deeds of glory. Here metaphysical ideas were freely invoked to inspire concrete forms.