[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Maurya and Shunga Art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.ray-1945) › c16.5 # Maurya and Shunga Art c16.5 Maurya and Śuṅga Art c16.5 - **Language:** English ### [c16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.ray-1945.c16.5) Fig. 4. Saṅkāśya. Standing elephant crowning the capital of an Aśoka column. It suggests a comparison with the Dhauli elephant, but is certainly on a lower level of artistic conception. Its plump form is, plastically speaking, compatatively static, and execution clumsy. The lower border framing the abacus appears to be a translation from wooden originals. C. 255 B. C. Photo : Bachhofer. - [Previous: c16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.ray-1945.c16.4) - [Next: c16.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.ray-1945.c16.6) - [Up: c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.ray-1945.c16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.ray-1945.c16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.ray-1945.c16.5) · Pramāṇa