MAHARAJA KESARI SING

ANCIENT INDIAN ARTS
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Maharaja Kesari Sing on horseback overcoming a lioness. Bikaner; Rajasthan. About 1715-20.

THE MAN BISAULI ANCIENT INDIAN ARTS

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Ancient Indian art : Copper sheet figure in the shape of man. Bisauli, Uttarpradesh.

About 1000 B.C or earlier. Height  17 inch.

Nothing is known about the people or purpose which figure of this type - found in the Gangetic valley - served, attention may be drawn to the effigy of the 'golden man' embedded in the Vedic sacrificial alter.

Source - Book: The Art of India , Stella Kramrisch,1955

VETTUVANKOIL FROM SOUTH INDIA

THE  TRADITIONAL INDIAN ARTS : 

Vettuvankoil, from South India

The four - armed image of Siva Vyakhyana Daksinamurti, Sum total knowledge and its expounder, places his left foot on the infant - shaped demon of Forgetfulness ( apasmara purusa ) who cluthes a serpent. The iconographic theme is integrated in the 'architectural' conception of the monument.