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Annual Report on Kannada Research in Bombay Province For the Year 1939-40

1941

He explained the Vedic and Puranic Literatures as embodying ancient historical traditions of bgone age.t traced the growth of civilisation from the earliest recorded times to The beginning of the Christian Era illustrating the points of contact beween the East and the West and exhibited by means of the epidiasco'pe the photographs of archaeological and architectural monuments in the Deccan [...] These paintings resemble in delineation of the shades of expression and drawing the fresco paintings in the caves at Ajanta which are supposed to date during the period of the later members of the Valataka dynasty of Central India and on account of this similarity they may be assigned to the period contemporaneous with the excavation of the third cave i.e. [...] Similarly on the doorframes of the same shrine are cut in high relief two figures one male and the other female the former holds in his raised left hand a twig of a tree and in his right a mace while the latter holds a pitcher in her right hand—the left hand resting on the top of the mace held by the seated or half-standing figure of a dwarf who has the face of a horse and the body from the n [...] This is one of the exquisitely beautful sculptures found in this part and may very well be compared for the epressiveness of art and proportions of limbs with the female deities in the rock-cut caves of Badami assigned to the 6th century A. D. But the exberance of the flourishes of the sculptural art lavished on the C - corations othe prabitävali and the image of the deity suggest a l [...] It is more or less a linear representation of the deity which perhaps marks an early stage in the development of the sculptural art in India But the image is not proportionate in the delineation of the several parts of the body and the artist betrays his utter ignorance of anatomy when he carves the plumpy legs out of proportion to the upper parts above the waist.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
149
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146993
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi R.S. Panchamukhi view
Administrative
1-2 R.S. Panchamukhi view
General
3-8 R.S. Panchamukhi view
Part I Karnatak Archaeology and Epigraphy
9-78 R.S. Panchamukhi view
Part II Kannada Research Museum
79-102 K.G. Kundangar view
Part III Karnatak Manuscripts
103-132 R.S. Panchamukhi view

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