Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t2.19

c5.s3.t2.19

What follows in the eighth century in south India can be seen in the sculptures of the Kailāsanātha temple at Kāñcīpuram. The fate that had befallen post-Gupta sculpture in northern India at that time is the aftermath, too, of the final achievement of the classical stage in the south. A thinned plastic context is handled with linear precision.