Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t1.42

c5.s3.t1.42

In central India a homelier and sturdier build had been inherited from the days of Sāñcī (see the figure of Bhūdevī in the Varāha avatāra relief, Udayagiri, the various river goddesses from Besnagar, Tigāwa, etc.).107 This tradition, upon which are bestowed achievements of Mathurā from the second century onward, and later on refinements from Sārnāth, gives the reliefs an antinomy of appeal, where spontaneous existence and wisdom of its transitoriness are blended in a plastic context (Figs. 60, 64). But this is also the case in the output of the workshops of Sārnāth, specially in their lesser productions, such as architectonic reliefs (cf. Kṣantivādin Jātaka lintel).108 Geographical demarcations, indispensable as they are, must not be drawn too rigidly.