Indian Sculpture c7.s1.1

c7.s1.1

When other civilisations in their sculptures aim at results vastly different—Egypt, for instance, at crystalline purity and permanency; or Greece, with an increasing knowledge of anatomy, at the perfect beauty of the human body—the Indian craftsman models what has a primary significance to him as an integral part of a supra-personal connectedness of life. This he neither interprets nor illustrates. Endowed with tradition and training, he forms his vision in the material before him by the touch of his hand.