The Hindu Temple v2.c11.s1.64

v2.c11.s1.64

This particular quality is not confined to any type or province of Indian temple sculpture. It arises from existence itself realising itself in an enduring recognition, an ever active memory, completely made conscious to itself. The place of this realisation is the body. The different physiognomical types particular to the different parts of India, are its substratum. The schools of Indian sculpture differ as much as the human types reflected in the images of the gods. The metaphysical realisation to which the images give shape requires the figure of man as reference; on becoming an image, made by art, in stone, etc., it is transformed and transubstantiated. The frame however, of this body made by art is measured according to the perfect proportion of the body of man.²⁴