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... figure carved with a profusion of swirls on the entrance pillar . On the beam is a pot bellied seated figure with elaborte carvings of faces and figures around . These complex sculptures are believed to date back to the 5th or 6th ...
... figure carved with a profusion of swirls on the entrance pillar . On the beam is a pot bellied seated figure with elaborte carvings of faces and figures around . These complex sculptures are believed to date back to the 5th or 6th ...
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... figures in classical Indian art . The tree in blossom lends charm to the beautiful female figure . Beauty of nature combined with the beauty of the female form is the basis of the worship of mother earth . The threefold fixation or the ...
... figures in classical Indian art . The tree in blossom lends charm to the beautiful female figure . Beauty of nature combined with the beauty of the female form is the basis of the worship of mother earth . The threefold fixation or the ...
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... figure . 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 ...
... figure . 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 ...
Contents
THE TIMELESS APPEAL OF ASSAMS WEAVING ART Shalini Mitra | 7 |
THE POET INTELLECTUAL Pavan K Varma | 14 |
GREAT EXPONENT OF INDIAN CULTURE Prabhakar Begde 22 228 | 22 |
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