Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t2.5
Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t2.5
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In the eighth century the heaviness is overcome by linear discipline. The outline firmly grips a modelling that has tightened. Its generalisations come near the ‘mediæval’ phase of Indian plastic art. The transitions from the classical to the mediæval are gradual. In Bihār (Nālandā, Fig. 81), in Bengal, in Orissā (Utkala, Fig. 83), in the Central Provinces (Sirpur)¹²⁷ and in south India (Kailāsanātha temple, Kāñcīpuram), this phase is equally conspicuous.