Indian Sculpture c9.112
Indian Sculpture c9.112
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c9.112
84. The horizontal-vertical compositional framework, however, is frequently used in Nāgārjunikoṇḍa and Goli. But there its character is as little tectonic as it is where it occurs in Bhārhut and Sāñcī (Figs. 22, 34). Here as well as there it is employed, *faute de mieux*, where rectangular panels are to be filled and where the artistic urge is not cogent enough to dictate its own linear composition.