Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c18.28

c18.28

**A School of Sculpture.** Two old inscriptions mention interesting examples of these craftsmen and the schools they conducted in connection with their crafts which they plied and pursued as cottage industries in their own homes combined with their workshops. One of these inscriptions was found on the famous Yaksha image discovered at Parkham and refers to the construction of the image (*Katā* = kṛita) by the sculptor Gomitaka described as the *ante-vāsī*, resident pupil, of the master Kuṇika. The second inscription found on the image of what was locally worshipped as "Mansā Devī" states that "the image of Yakshī Lāyāvā was constructed (*katā*) by the sculptor Nāka, the *ante-vāsī* or pupil of the master Kuṇika". It will thus appear that the School of Sculpture established by the master-craftsman Kuṇika was very famous in its locality and produced accomplished sculptors like Nāka and Gomitaka to whom India owes her earliest statues of colossal figures, male and female.