Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c9.s3.72
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c9.s3.72
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Many other geometrical designs as triangle, square, Svastika, Nandyāvarta, and floral motifs as lotus, chaturdalapushpa (four-petalled flower, Hindi chauphuliā चौफुलिया), pīpal leaf, acanthus leaf (kaṇṭakārī) occur as motifs common to Indian and what is here termed as Jambudvīpa art. As Coomaraswamy has pointed out, the fret (gavāksha and kuñjarāksha), spiral (āvarta or bhramaraka, Hindi चक्राँरी), volute (vellana or loḍaka, Hindi : Belan-loḍhā बेलन-लोढ़ा), labyrinth (vyūha), spider's-web (ūrṇa-vābhi; Hindi Makaḍā मकड़ा) are some of the motifs that have survived in folk-art up to our own times. [Fig. 37]