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Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 1941

1942

According to our view the people of the Deccan idependent of any influence from the North were conversant with the art of painting in the early centuries of the first milenium B. C. Now to prove the soundness of this view I show you an inscription from Cave X which is painted above the figure of a Raja who with his family is proceeding to a Bodhtree the emblem of the Great Being in or [...] From the style of the script as also from the other inscrptions of this king in the Hathigumpha and at Nanaghat epigaphists have correctly assigned the Sanchi record to the first half of the second century B. C. But some eminent archaeolgists on the basis that the sculpture of the Southern Gate of Sanchi is superior in workmanship to that of the Bharhut stupa which is also assigned to [...] The mixing of the Scythians with the aborigines of the Deccan on a large scale made certain changes in their features and we notice that the figures shown in the early frescoes of Ajanta such as you have just seen on the screen resemble more the present day inhabitants of the Deccan than the descendants of Aryans in North India. [...] But the triratna emblems and the several patterns which are peculiar to the early Buddhist sculpture like the lotus design on the specimen at the left end in the third row or the sacred-wheel motif on the second specimen from the right in the fourth row and the full-blown lotus-flower on the second specimen from the left in the bottom row which have been noticed frequently in the sculpture at [...] The head-gear and the ornaments of the figure at the top are reminiscent of the elaborate head dresses and jewellery shown in the paintings of Ajanta.
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Authors

Dr. R.N. Dandekar

Pages
211
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii A.B. Gajendragadkar, R.N. Dandekar view
Frontmatter
i-ii A.B. Gajendragadkar, R.N. Dandekar view
Excavations at Kondapur an Andhra Town (Cir. 200 B.C. to 200 A.D.)
171-185 G. Yazdani view
Jñānaghana’s Contribution to Advaita
186-201 E. P. Radhakrishnan view
A Sociological Study of the Forms of Marriage in Ancient India
202-219 Ludwik Sternbach view
The Chinese Tripitaka
220-235 V.V. Gokhale view
The Suta Samhita
236-253 V. Raghavan view
A Topical Anaiysis of the Bhojanakutuhala A Work on Dietetics Composed by Rabhunatha Between A. D. 1675 and 1700
254-263 P. K. Gode view
The Contemporaneity of Samudragupta and Augustus Caesar of Rome
264-271 Dhirendranath Mookerjee view
The Formation Of Konkani
272-287 S.M. Katre view
Miscellanea Balacarita: A Ramaic Play
288-292 C.R. Devadhar view
Reviews
293-299 A.B. Gajendragadkar, R.N. Dandekar view
In Memoriam C. R. Lanman
300-ii A.B. Gajendragadkar, R.N. Dandekar view
Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. Sir Ganganatha Jha KT. M.A. D.Litt. LL.D.(1872-1941 )
305-306 A.B. Gajendragadkar, R.N. Dandekar view
Article
33-80 A.B. Gajendragadkar, R.N. Dandekar view
Backmatter
i-ii A.B. Gajendragadkar, R.N. Dandekar view

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