Indian Sculpture c8.245

c8.245

Each figure or group is set against the flat wall, and stands on a rectangular base. With (Fig. 87) or without architectonic devices, the figures, along with the respective recesses or projections, are shuffled around the axis of the temple-body. While they adhere to it closely (Fig. 87) by the weight of the modelled form and the amplitude of their postures, those in the present example show this connection relaxed; the figures are of a slighter type and just cling to the wall. Idioms of western type as far as the treatment of the elongated legs and facial profiles are concerned, are softened by the nuances of modelling.