Indian Sculpture c9.157
Indian Sculpture c9.157
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c9.157
The terra-cotta and stone panels from Pahārpur, North Bengal, belong to two traditions—the one, numerically in the minority, is an eastern and provincial version of contemporary sculpture in Madhya-deśa, but the other is an undiluted and indigenous eastern Indian contribution. Significantly enough, the latter is mainly employed in showing events from the life of Kṛṣṇa and other animated scenes and figures. But when divinities are represented in samapada-sthānaka, a hybrid compromise between the tradition of Gupta sculpture of Madhyadeśa and Bengalī form is arrived at. From there the cult images of the Pāla and Sena school take their beginning.