Indian Sculpture c5.s2.t6.17

c5.s2.t6.17

In the third century the discipline of the late second century no longer checks a truly excentrical sense of movement. With a tremulous mannerism of modelling (casing slabs of stūpa of Amarāvatī, reliefs from a stūpa near Goli, etc.),⁸⁵ the highly-sophisticated school of Veṅgī dissolves (Fig. 53).