Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c9.52
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c9.52
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c9.52
The above picture of a royal palace with its horizontal and elevational lay-out furnishes evidence of the development of architecture (*Vāstu-vidyā*) in the Janapada age. The Pāli literature has preserved a record of the traditional forms as current in memory and folk-lore. Most of these stylistic elements continued in the Mauryan and Sunga periods with transition from timber to stone and brick.