Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t2.22

c5.s3.t2.22

The outline now has none of the effortless consistency of the preceding century. It is kept in tension, whilst a side-wards flexion is given to the chest. Marked angles keep the piled-up energy of the movement pressed against a mighty physique.136 Heavy limbs are accompanied almost imperceptibly by detailed but subdued jewellery, while the more lavish crowns and coiffures conform to iconographical prescriptions. The eyes have not the in-look of the Gupta figures, nor the expression of absorption given to them in Bādāmī. The full expansion of the tide of life surges noiselessly to its brim, i.e. to the eyes, and in them it just touches upon the outer world.