The Hindu Temple v2.c12.286

v2.c12.286

Viewed against the sculptures of Khajuraho, this figure* and also other images (Pls. LXI, LXIII, LXV) belonging to temples situated at about the same latitude but further west, and as far as Kotah State in Malwa, appear stern. The high strung elegance of Candella sculpture is absent in the sculptures of the western part of central India (including Gwalior and also Malwa) as it is also from the sculptures to the east of the Candella school (Pls. XXXIX-XLII) and from the suave Eastern Indian school whose influence extended as far as Sārnāth (Pl. XXXVIII). The same components however are fused here as in the Candella school, but the modelling is never as taut and the linear tension never as acute as it is there.