Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c8.59
Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c8.59
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c8.59
One of the finest and best-preserved of the Amarâvati reliefs is a sculptured slab from the base of the *stupa* (Plate XXXI.) now in the Madras Museum. It represents the *stupa* itself, surrounded with its rail, with a crowd of adoring spirits, the *vidyâdharas*, hovering round its summit. These figures are perhaps the most beautiful in composition of all, and they show clearly the idealistic treatment which had developed RELIEF FROM AMARÂVATI (From the base of the Great *Stupa*)