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This inscription thus indicates that the statue represents the Yaksa Manibhadra. [4] According to John Boardman, the hem of the dress is derived from Greek art. Describing a similar statue, John Boardman writes: "It has no local antecedents and looks most like a Greek Late Archaic mannerism". Similar folds can be seen in the Bharhut Yavana. [5]
The Epic-Puranic chronology is a timeline of Hindu mythology based on the Itihasa (the Sanskrit Epics, that is, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana) and the Puranas.These texts have an authoritative status in Indian tradition, and narrate cosmogeny, royal chronologies, myths and legendary events.
The Statue of Henry Hardinge, Governor-General of India. During this period, European styled statues were erected in city squares, as monuments to the British Empire's power. Statues of Queen Victoria, George V, and various Governor-Generals of India were erected. Such statues were removed from public places after independence, and placed ...
The first Indo-Greek kings, also sometimes called "Indo-Bactrian", from Demetrius I (200–190 BCE) to Eucratides (170–145 BCE) ruled simultaneously,the areas of Bactria and northwestern India, until they were completely expelled from Bactria and the eastern Bactrian capital city of Ai-Khanoum by invading nomads, probably the Yuezhi, or possibly the Sakas, circa 145 BCE.
[91] [92] The ancient Greek texts of the time of Alexander the Great call Shiva "Indian Dionysus", or alternatively call Dionysus "god of the Orient". [91] Similarly, the use of phallic symbol [ note 2 ] as an icon for Shiva is also found for Irish, Nordic, Greek (Dionysus [ 93 ] ) and Roman deities, as was the idea of this aniconic column ...
Statue of Kalki's incarnation on a wall of Rani Ki Vav (The Queen's Stepwell) at Patan, Gujarat, India. A minor text named Kalki Purana is a relatively recent text, likely composed in Bengal. Its dating floruit is the 18th-century. [21] Wendy Doniger dates the Kalki Mythology containing Kalki Purana to between 1500 and 1700 CE. [22]
In the historical Vedic religion, the role of Vishvakarma as the builder of gods is attributed to Tvastar. [11] Vedic Vishvakarman is identified with Prajapati rather than Tvaṣṭṛ. [12] [13] In later mythology, Vishvakarman is sometimes identified with Tvaṣṭṛ and is a craftsman deity. [14]
The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone: the Archaic (from about 650 to 480 BC), Classical (480–323 BC ...