Indian Sculpture c4.s1.10

c4.s1.10

Other devices on seals, sealings and on terra-cottas are also relevant, if as motifs only, for the future: the centrifugal combination of various figures or their parts diverging from one centre;⁷ the many-headed divinity and the standing figures with long arms so that the hands touch the knees;⁸ the over-high head of goddesses, which anticipates the uṣṇīṣa, i.e. the excrescence of the head of Buddha images;⁹ the mode of sitting;¹⁰ the part played by the Nāga (serpent¹¹); and the alignment of repeated figures (Fig. 8), as well as the freely symmetrical arrangement of single figures on the surface of the relief.¹²