Indian Sculpture c8.218

c8.218

In spite of the obvious stylistic affinities with Fig. 81, which are brought about by the phase to which both the images belong and by the fact that they are both of the eastern school, the differences are equally distinct. Within the generalities in common they express the living tradition of each of the two provinces, i.e. Bihār-Bengal on the one side, and Orissā (Utkala) on the other. None of the delicacy of the former image is to be found here, but an altogether more solid consistency of composition. A coherence of jewellery and body, and even stiffness in some parts, as in the legs, for instance, are part of the surging linear rhythm.