Indian Sculpture c8.93
Indian Sculpture c8.93
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43. Couples riding on elephants on one of the capitals, inside the Caitya-hall at Kārli. About A.D. 100. Fully carved in the round, free in movement and expression, the two groups of riders are set back to back, so as to form a triangle in space against the wall of the rock. Animals and couples, joyous in the pride of existence, yield their variegated appearance, to be differentiated by a modelling that has amplitude. The striving forward of the modelled form from the wall of the rock, to be received and wrapt round by light and by darkness, shows this sculpture in the interior of the cave endowed with qualities to which wider scope was to be given later (Figs. 75–79).