King Ashoka

Emperor Ashoka

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Roaring animal is bhimbetka

A Roaring Animal, Bhimbetka : In this painting, a wild beast (bison) is shown raging and attacking a man. He has overpowered him as he has now surrendered and is lying on the ground. This could be the hunting scene where the beast has acted in defence because there are other human figures also surrounding it.

Shiva, (Sanskrit: “Auspicious One”) also spelled Śiwa or Śiva, one of the main deities of Hinduism, whom Shaivites worship as the supreme god. Among his common epithets are Shambhu (“Benign”), Shankara (“Beneficent”), Mahesha (“Great Lord”), and Mahadeva (“Great God”).  Shiva and his family at the burning ground Shiva and his family at the burning ground. Parvati, Shiva's wife, holds Skanda while watching Ganesha (left) and Shiva string together the skulls of the dead. The bull Nandi rests behind the tree. Kangra painting, 18th century; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Shiva is represented in a variety of forms: in a pacific mood with his consort Parvati and son Skanda, as the cosmic dancer (Nataraja), as a naked ascetic, as a mendicant beggar, as a yogi, as a Dalit (formerly called untouchable) accompanied by a dog (Bhairava), and as the androgynous union of Shiva and his consort in one body, half-male and half-female (Ardhanarishvara). He is both the great ascetic and the master of fertility, and he is the master of both poison and medicine, through his ambivalent power over snakes. As Lord of Cattle (Pashupata), he is the benevolent herdsman—or, at times, the merciless slaughterer of the “beasts” that are the human souls in his care. Although some of the combinations of roles may be explained by Shiva’s identification with earlier mythological figures, they arise primarily from a tendency in Hinduism to see complementary qualities in a single ambiguous figure.  Shiva The god Shiva in the garb of a mendicant, South Indian bronze from Tiruvengadu, Tamil Nadu, early 11th century; in the Thanjavur Museum and Art Gallery, Tamil Nadu. Shiva’s female consort is known under various manifestations as Uma, Sati, Parvati, Durga, and Kali; Shiva is also sometimes paired with Shakti, the embodiment of power. The divine couple, together with their sons—Skanda and the elephant-headed Ganesha—are said to dwell on Mount Kailasa in the Himalayas. The six-headed Skanda is said to have been born of Shiva’s seed, which was shed in the mouth of the god of fire, Agni, and transferred first to the river Ganges and then to six of the stars in the constellation of the Pleiades. According to another well-known myth, Ganesha was born when Parvati created him out of the dirt she rubbed off during a bath, and he received his elephant head from Shiva, who was responsible for beheading him. Shiva’s vehicle in the world, his vahana, is the bull Nandi; a sculpture of Nandi sits opposite the main sanctuary of many Shiva temples. In temples and in private shrines, Shiva is also worshipped in the form of the lingam, a cylindrical votary object that is often embedded in a yoni, or spouted dish.  sandstone linga Sandstone linga, c. 900; in the British Museum, London. Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum Shiva is usually depicted in painting and sculpture as white (from the ashes of corpses that are smeared on his body) with a blue neck (from holding in his throat the poison that emerged at the churning of the cosmic ocean, which threatened to destroy the world), his hair arranged in a coil of matted locks (jatamakuta) and adorned with the crescent moon and the Ganges (according to legend, he brought the Ganges River to earth from the sky, where she is the Milky Way, by allowing the river to trickle through his hair, thus breaking her fall). Shiva has three eyes, the third eye bestowing inward vision but capable of burning destruction when focused outward. He wears a garland of skulls and a serpent around his neck and carries in his two (sometimes four) hands a deerskin, a trident, a small hand drum, or a club with a skull at the end. That skull identifies Shiva as a Kapalika (“Skull-Bearer”) and refers to a time when he cut off the fifth head of Brahma. The head stuck to his hand until he reached Varanasi (now in Uttar Pradesh, India), a city sacred to Shiva. It then fell away, and a shrine for the cleansing of all sins, known as Kapala-mochana (“The Releasing of the Skull”), was later established in the place where it landed.

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The Lion Capital of Ashoka is a sculpture of four Asiatic lions standing back to back, on an elaborate base that includes other animals. A graphic representation of it was adopted as the official Emblem of India in 1950. ... It features four Asiatic Lions standing back to back.

The Ajanta Caves constitute ancient monasteries and worship-halls of different Buddhist traditions carved into a 75-metre (246 ft) wall of rock. The caves also present paintings depicting the past lives and rebirths of the Buddha, pictorial tales from Aryasura's Jatakamala, and rock-cut sculptures of Buddhist deities

The Indus Valley Civilisation was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to

Kala kise kahate Hain

यूरोपीय प्रभाव जो अकबर के समय से चित्रकला प्रारंभ हुआ था वह अभी भी जारी रहा। अबुल हसन ने 'तुजुके जहाँगीर' में मुख्य पृष्ठ के लिए चित्र बनाया था। 'उस्ताद मंसूर' एवं अबुल हसन जहाँगीर के श्रेष्ठ कलाकारों में से थे। उन्हें बादशाह ने क्रमशः 'नादिर-उल-अस्र' एवं 'नादिरुज्जमा'' की उपाधि प्रदान की थी।

Differences: 1-> They were not aware of use of terracotta beyond art and craft. ... 3-> In Present day terracotta the life of product is not as vital as that of Indus one. 4-> The terracotta representations of human form were crude in the Indus Valley as compared to now.04-Sep-2018

The Jain idols are males depicted in both sitting and standing postures. The tīrthaṅkaras are represented either Padmasana (seated in yoga posture) or standing in the Kayotsarga posture. Parshvanatha statues are usually depicted with a snake crown on head, Bahubali statues are usually depicted covered with creepers.28-Sep-2020

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The first three centuries of the Christian era saw the golden period of the Mathura school of sculpture. The new ideals of Mahayana Buddhism inspired the sculptors. According to Indian authorities, the creation of the Buddha image was the greatest contribution of the artists of this school.

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The Seated Buddha from Gandhara is an early statue of the Buddha discovered at the site of Jamal Garhi in ancient Gandhara in modern-day Pakistan, that dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD. It is now in room 22 of the British Museum.[1] Statues of the "enlightened one" were not made until the 1st century CE.