Indian Sculpture c8.75

c8.75

Spontaneousness of composition, a blossoming quality of the modelling, specially noticeable in the faces, the bursting forth of the stone into living, variegated form and figure, are surpassed nowhere in the work of Sāñcī. The physiognomy of the Yakṣī from Didargañj and of contemporary terra-cottas reappears in the faces of Indra, etc., as if modelled over with the most delicate touch. (See also the Mauryan head from Pāṭaliputra (Patna) in Coomaraswamy, *History of Indian and Indonesian Art*, Fig. 22, where the relationship of the work from Patna of the third century B.C. with the work of the first century from central India is even more obvious.)