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Gandharvas from Sondani, Archaeological Museum, Gwalior

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Authors

Rowland, Benjamin

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These supernatural aerial beings: divinities of fragrance and music, once the attendants of Indra: are given effect [sic] of weightless, soaring motion not by wings, but by the direction of the legs and upward swirling lines of the scarf, The female gandharva is the Sanchi yakshi in Gupta terms, a fully modelled form in relief, but suggesting the possibility of existence in the round, Contrast of the close-pressed roundness of the breasts and almost abstractly tubular limbs, and the expansive swelling roundness that makes these beings appear 'as if breathing' (p, 144),

Keywords

Gupta Period, Gupta Sculpture, General, stone sculpture, book scan

Citation

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/163594

Collections

Basham Photographs

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Image

Archives Series

Basham Collection

Date created

1953

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This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.

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