Indian Sculpture c8.132

c8.132

The plastic treatment is of mediocre quality, and is related to the tradition of Mathurā in details such as the heavy ridges for the eyebrows and lesser ridges to demarcate the eyelids.205 While the physiognomical type belongs to Mathurā, the face with its stern and coarse cast of features is given a new attitude. It is held with the chin pressed against the throat, and this is not an attitude of extravert ease as in images from Mathurā. The modelling of the body is of the Sārnāth school. Its delicate touch, however, in this relatively crude sculpture is just indicated only, and is altogether absent in the heavy arms and hands.