Indian Sculpture c8.215

c8.215

82. Part of Gaṅgādharamūrti, with Umā, Viṣṇu on Garuḍa and a Gaṇa. Elephanta. Eighth century. The innate plasticity of the art of the Dekkhan distinguishes this relief, and gives but little scope to the linearising, flattening and schematising tendency, conspicuous in some contemporary Dekkhani reliefs and elsewhere (Figs. 69, 81, 83).