Jaisinghpura: Railing pillar with yaksi
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Rowland, Benjamin
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High relief representation of yaksi of a flamboyance and sensuality of expression surpassing anything known in the art of earlier periods, These reliefs mark the culmination of a tendency already noted in the carvings at Sanchi and Bharhut: What is [the] purpose of such frankly sensuous figures on [a] Buddhist monument? Possibly they represent a pointed reference on the exterior to the transitory life of pleasure outside the peace of the world of Buddha, or, like the later Hindu mithunas, they may represent an allegory of the desirability of the soul's union with the divine in the forms of these beautiful dryads that so actively suggest the desirability of sexual union, (p, 96)
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1953
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