Indian Sculpture c8.104

c8.104

The rambling creeper device occurs here as elsewhere three times: on the upper border, purely floral; on the lower border, floral and animalic; and in the middle panel the human element is given a large share. The combination of these and of more specialised devices, such as the Garuḍa motif, the Gaṇa devices, etc., throw light on the working of the mythical imagination and its alliance with form. The issue is a composition in which the figures, as part of the entire plastic conception, have mythical suggestiveness which is sanctioned by their names, for instance, that of Garuḍa, etc.