The Hindu Temple v2.c12.105

v2.c12.105

Power and grace of a heroic vision have shaped the lower half of the image. Its angles are sustained by curved shapes of the keenest tension. Were they blown in glass, they might easily be shattered by their own contact. But not all the images of this temple are carved with so high a tension of rarified form. The figure on the adjacent surface of the buttress, on the right, is sturdy with a weightiness balanced from the sole to the top of her crown.