Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c4.14

c4.14

The conclusion which I have sought to establish in these pages is that from the 8th century to the 12th, in the eastern provinces of Northern India artistic activity is evident on a scale, which other provinces of the north and the south failed even to approach in magnificence, excellence and extensity. Here the Pāla and the Sena excelled and even the proud Gurjara-Pratihāras of Kanauj, the Haihayas of Tripurī, the war-like Chāhamāna lords of Sākambharī, the learned Paramāra chiefs of Ujjayinī and Dhārā and the proud Chaulukyas of Aṇahilapāṭaka were compelled to yield the first place to them. Mediæval sculptures have been discovered, in varying numbers, in Mahārāshṭra, Gujarat, Rajputana and the Antarvedī but nowhere is their total number comparable to the output of a single century in Bengal and Bihar.