Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.171
Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.171
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c7.171
JUST as the male form in Indian art is taken, not as an exemplar of physical beauty, but as the material manifestation of the Universal Spirit, so the female becomes the concrete expression of the Power of the Spirit—its virtue, or *śâkti*. Instead of an Aphrodite or Pallas Athene, Indian art creates a Saraswati—Divine Wisdom—or Prajnâparamitâ, her Buddhist counterpart, and Târâ, the Spirit of Infinite Mercy.