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पूर्व बौद्धकाल में चित्रकला का विशेष विकास प्रमाणित नहीं है क्योंकि भगवान बुद्ध ने स्वयं अपने अनुयाइयों को चित्रकला की ओर प्रवृत्त न होने का उपदेश दिया। इस काल की चित्रकला के प्रमाण प्राप्त नहीं हैं और केवल इस काल के बौद्ध साहित्य से ही समाज में चित्रकला के प्रचलन का ज्ञान होता है। वैदिक…
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(गुफामंदिरों की चित्रकला) (५० ई० से ७०० ईसवी तक ) ईसवी शताब्दी के उदय के साथ ‘प्राचीन काल’ की भारतीय कला के इतिहास में स्वर्णयुग प्रस्फुटित होता दिखाई पड़ता है। इस समय बौद्ध धर्म अपना प्रभाव स्थापित कर रहा था और दलित, दरिद्र जनता बौद्ध धर्म ग्रहण कर रही थी। बौद्ध धर्म की यह उन्नति…
ASOKA, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE BUDDHIST SCHOOL (cir. B.C. 250) In these circumstances it is not difficult to account for the form and character that the giant pillar and the other lithic productions of the Asokan period assumed. From the columned halls reared under the orders of the Achaemenid kings, from their sculptured reliefs and…
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ASOKA, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE BUDDHIST SCHOOL (cir. B.C. 250) Up to the middle of the third century B.C. the course pursued by the building art in India has been only indistinctly visible, as it is obscured by the mists of time. So far, therefore, any account of its progress has been based very largely on…
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BUILDING DURING THE RULE OF THE EARLY MAURYAN DYNASTY (ce. 400 B.C.) WOODEN ORIGINS Apart from the fortifications and city of Pataliputra, there has also survived one concrete ‘record of the wooden construction of the palace. of such a high standard of workmanship that it is a definite proof of the Mauryan artificers’ accumulated experience in…
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BUILDING DURING THE RULE OF THE EARLY MAURYAN DYNASTY (ce. 400 B.C.) WOODEN ORIGINS A strong firm government-administered over a large territory usually implies an advance in human endeavor, and with the rise of the Mauryan dynasty towards the end of the fifth century B.C. which established for the first time a single paramount power in…
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INTRODUCTION: THE INDUS CIVILIZATION (e. B, C. 3000-2000) THE VEDIC CULTURE (c. B. C. 1500-800.) The huts within the village enclosure were of various shapes but it is fairly certain that at first those of a circular plan predominated. Students of constructional origins have remarked on primitive man’s natural tendency towards rounded forms, and give…
ROCK-CUT ARCHITECTURE.(A) THE MINAYANA BUDDHIST VIHARAS OR MONASTERIES.(B) THE ROCK ARCHITECTURE OF ORISSA (2nd Century B.C.) The architectural treatment of the Rani Gumpha is characteristic of the Orissanstyle of rock-architecture as a whole, and provides the key to the entire movement. In the design of the pillars supporting the verandahs and the pilasters of the mural…
ROCK-CUT ARCHITECTURE.(A) THE MINAYANA BUDDHIST VIHARAS OR MONASTERIES. (B) THE ROCK ARCHITECTURE OF ORISSA (2nd Century B.C.) According to an inscription carved on the rock of a shallow natural cave on Udaigiri, called the Hathi Gumpha, the mean date of these excavated chambers corresponds to about B.C. 160. This inscription records, among other information, the chief episodes…
