Indian Sculpture c8.138

c8.138

That Greek and Indian sculpture are fundamentally related in some aspects is proved by the figurines of the Indus valley (Figs. 1, 3). A readiness from the Indian side absorbed such a device as the contrapost, and made it its own in the few instances in which it occurs. The motif of the draped garment, however, was only casually remembered as having a volume of its own. The folds, as a rule, had been converted into lines by the fifth century, i.e. they were treated in indigenous manner (cf. Figs. 25, 26 and 59, 61).