[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) › c8.24 # Indian Sculpture c8.24 Indian Sculpture c8.24 - **Language:** English ### [c8.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.24) 7. Sacred tree-arch, Mohenjo-Daro. Surrounds a figure of uncertain sex, in combined profile and front view. Leaf device on skull of figure. The vegetation-arch, with sides doubly curved, rests on a horizontal ground line. Ornamentalised leaves, marked by a raised outline, start directly from the arch, in a manner in which later flame devices spring from the prabhāmaṇḍala that surrounds the images of gods.¹⁷⁶ One component of the prabhāmaṇḍala, it thus appears, is the arch of vegetative origin and meaning. (See pp. 167, 170.) - [Previous: c8.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.23) - [Next: c8.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.25) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8) ## Cites (1) - [Mohenjo-daro](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.mohenjo-daro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.kramrisch-1933.c8.24) · Pramāṇa