Indian Sculpture c8.50

c8.50

There is no linear connection between the two main figures. An outburst of three-dimensioned form disrupts the ground of the relief and halts at its upper level. Striking contrasts of light and darkness keep the single figures apart. The subject matter has become negligible; nor are definite artistic solutions striven for; as, for instance, in Bodhgayā. But in a diction sure in its spontaneity are contained as much volume and outbusting vigour of the stone itself as the relief—if at all it is to remain one—will allow. The architectonic devices, on the other hand, lend themselves to a schematisation of the composition, peculiar to this phase of the work at Sāñcī.