India Perspectives, Volume 11PTI for the Ministry of External Affairs, 1998 - India |
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On the stupa gateways of Bharhut , Sanchi and Mathura , the female figures carved between the horizontal architraves and the ... On the eastern gateway is a beautiful female figure swaying majestically from the branch of a tree .
On the stupa gateways of Bharhut , Sanchi and Mathura , the female figures carved between the horizontal architraves and the ... On the eastern gateway is a beautiful female figure swaying majestically from the branch of a tree .
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The lack of a halo in the figure does nothing to detract from the excellence of the workmanship The later evidence of the Golden The ... at the National figures , ringed seals and even Museum , Neu : Delhi . monumental pillars .
The lack of a halo in the figure does nothing to detract from the excellence of the workmanship The later evidence of the Golden The ... at the National figures , ringed seals and even Museum , Neu : Delhi . monumental pillars .
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The figures of Vishnu Vaikuntha from Kashmir combine the boar and lion forms of the deity together with the human one . Of note is the symbolic representation of the cosmic cycle through a wheel or sudarshan chakra , into which is ...
The figures of Vishnu Vaikuntha from Kashmir combine the boar and lion forms of the deity together with the human one . Of note is the symbolic representation of the cosmic cycle through a wheel or sudarshan chakra , into which is ...
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