By

Founder editor, Mulk Raj Anand; editors, Jyotindra Jain, Naman P. Ahuja

Item Type

Paperback (Periodicals)

Bound Volume

[series: vol. 70 no.4 July 2019]

Serial

15454

Publisher

The Marg Foundations, Mumbai

Description

108 pages : illustrations (color) ; 31 cm

ISBN / ISSN No.

09721444

Subject

1. Art -- Gandhara; 2. Gandhara art and architecture; 3. Antiquities.

Summay

Gandhara: a confluence of cultures. Seems to be the right image at the wrong place, for we don’t really associate the goddess mounted on a lion with Gandhara culture. But this issue, edited by Naman P. Ahuja, who is a curator of Indian art and teaches at Jawaharlal Nehru University, focuses on the latest finds from recent excavations and on advances in Gandhara art studies that have revealed waves of migration and invasions, including the best known one by Alexander the Great, to that territory and the multiplicity of cultures that flowered there and, as the caption states, ‘Rhyton: The Buffalo-Slayer Goddess, c. 600-700 AD, Iran, Sasanian period. Silver; height 19.1 centimetres’. The longish caption states that this ceremonial drinking vessel is shaped like a cornucopia and that it came from Afghanistan of the Turko-Shahi period, when Hindu images were disseminated. This period is largely unexplored. Sure enough, she is Durga Mahishasuramardini, and such representations on a larger scale and with certain variations are not unknown to Calcutta pandals.

Keyword

Gandhara art and architecture.

Accession No.

15454

Status

Available

Category

Indian Art

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