Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t2.40

c5.s3.t2.40

Transcendental states of inner experience had been visualised by form, based on the transmuted human body. (See previous chapter.) So it remains throughout Indian plastic art. But beyond this the rock-cut sculptures of the Dekkhan and the south widened the notion of the ‘body’ in a cosmic sense. In it are integrated depth of the earth, light of the sun, vibrating atmosphere, and their coherence through dynamic movement.