Indian Sculpture c9.191

c9.191

155. Utkala was an independent kingdom at the time of Kālidāsa and of the Brahmā purāṇa (N. L. Dey, op. cit., p. 213). During the eighth and ninth centuries, and with regard to Buddhist sculpture, Utkala is to be considered an art-province with a dialect of its own, although it is related to that of contemporary reliefs in Bhuvaneśvar, specially on the maṇḍapam of the Paraśurāmeśvar temple, and to a lesser extent to reliefs on the garbhagṛha of this shrine or to those of the Satryugneśvar, Uttareśvar, and allied temples of this phase.