Indian Sculpture c8.80

c8.80

37. Elephant and flying Gandharva carrying a bowl. Part of frieze. Mañcapurī cave, Udayagiri, Orissā. Late second century B.C. (The entire frieze is reproduced in *Cambridge History of India*, Vol. I, Fig. 74.) Arch above a door which leads into the cave to the right. The figures appear as if emerging or flying forth from the rock. The flying motif is made more convincing with the help of the garland. Without this device it loses much of its force and directedness. The coming forth from the stone with a relatively high relief, the movement and foreshortening appear relatively fettered in treatment if held against Fig. 33. The other part of the frieze (not shown here), with its isolated and compact figures and the motif of the mural crown, contains survivals of Mauryan sculpture.