Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.128

c7.128

But the Indian sculptors never descended to such vulgarity. With their finer artistic insight, they would not take the hideousness of starvation as the symbol of their worship; they thought not of the feeble, wasted human body, but only of the spiritual strength and beauty the Master had gained through his enlightenment. They gave him a new, spiritualised body—broad-shouldered, deep-chested, golden-coloured, smooth-skinned, supple and lithe as a young lion.