Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c6.42

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MORI ROCK PAINTINGS— Recently a large group of thirty rock-shelters in village Mori, Districr Mandsor, M. P. has been surveyed, showing the ceiling and walls of the shelters decorated with paintings in red ochre, depicting animals, dancing humau figures and pastoral scenes, generally assignable to Series 3rd and 4th of D. H. Garden for the Panchmarhi Hills. Amongst geometrioal designs some are quite important, namely, a four armed cross inside a circle, an eight-spoked wheel, a solar orb with multiple rays, houses with gabled roof, a crude country cart a running *Sarvato’hadra* pattern intricately made out of Swastika design, and above all an eight-petalled lotus filled by a central design consisting of four *pipal* leaves joined at their tip end in the middle of the motif, which partly occurs in the Indus Valley also (Indian Archaeology, 1957-58, p. 27, Fig. 14. 1-4.).