Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c6.39
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c6.39
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The paintings in the Sone valley show hunting and dancing figures and a stage of culture as that of the painters of the 2nd series in the Mahadeo Hills. The local name for a rock-shelter is *Darī*, as in Likhunia Darī which is on the bank of the hilly stream Garai. The subject of the paintings is the capture of wild elephants by horsemen with the help of a tame elephant. The horse-riders carry a long pointed spear. Human figures with a square body or stick-like figures are found here showing that they were alike the figures of the 1st & 2nd series at Pachmarhi. In a remarkable painting we see a wounded wild boar with its mouth open in pain.