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Early Terracottas: Sunga, Kushan, Gupta, Suratgarh, Rangmahal, Bharatpur, Bairat, Rairh, Nagari
| Title: | Early Terracottas: Sunga, Kushan, Gupta, Suratgarh, Rangmahal, Bharatpur, Bairat, Rairh, Nagari | | Author: | Goetz, Hermann, Bajpai, K.D., Sankalia, H.D. | | Publication: | Marg | | Enumeration: | Vol. 12 Issue no. 2; March 1959, p. 24-27 | | Abstract: | The terracotta sculptures from the villages of Badopal to Rangmahal -- now in the Bikaner Museum, probably belonged to Hindu temples built from c. 200 CE, none of which are extant. They are closer to the Mathura than the Gandhara school, and drawn from Shaivism and Krishna-Gopala mythology. The sculptures are not Buddhist, as considered by Dr. Tessitori, the discoverer of the terracottas. Similar terracottas of the late Gupta period have been unearthed in the excavations at Ahichhattra-Ramgarh. Another set, comes from Barapas, 2 miles from Suratgarh. They may be assigned to the early Gupta period. D.R. Bhandarkar discovered 18 terracottas or moulded bricks at Nagari, 8 miles north of Chitorgarh. They come from the shrine of Kankali Mata and the Mahadeva temple, and depict non-religious subjects. The terracottas are not pre-Greek, as thought by Bhandarkar; they probably belong to the Gupta period, when moulded brick temples decorated with terracottas were in vogue. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
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