Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c15.189

c15.189

That this Art of statuary or portraiture in stone is very old is also demonstrated by the fact that it continued up to later times and also in imitations. While these statues stand by themselves as independent objects of worship, they figure as parts of a whole in the scheme of Bharhut sculptures of second century B.C. The Bharhut sculptures are full of images of these secondary deities figuring in the religion and worship of the masses.