Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t1.21

c5.s3.t1.21

Now, however, not only lakṣaṇas (characteristics of supernormal appearance) matter, nor do symbolic gestures, but the entire conduct of lines, planes and of all visual relations itself signify that reality which is hinted at by the very name.93 If in the period of early maturity the figures had grown up physically (p. 40), they have now attained their spiritual size.