[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Indian Sculpture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933) › c8.178 # Indian Sculpture c8.178 Indian Sculpture c8.178 - **Language:** English ### [c8.178](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.178) The difference in treatment of figures 68 and 69 is considerable. Broadly spreading mass, without energy and with a faltering outline, in the relief from Ajaṇṭā, an economy of modelling accompanied by a clear-cut outline, subtle in disciplined sinuosity, in Nāsik. With this corresponds the rendering of the hands and the facial features; melting almost to the point of being inarticulate in Ajaṇṭā, they are linearised, intense and definite in Nāsik. The hands of Avalokiteśvara hold fly-whisk and lotus as if these were weightless, those of the Buddha from Ajaṇṭā are benumbed. - [Previous: c8.177](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.177) - [Next: c8.179](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.179) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.178](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.178) · Pramāṇa