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Indian Sculpture c8.186

Indian Sculpture c8.186

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c8.186

The repeated verticalism of the figures, singly or in pairs, and set into plain and rectangular niches, affords the optical support necessary for the heavy horizontals of capitals and cornice. In none of the later temples is the implication of the figure into an ‘architectonic’ context carried out with such purity.