Indian art and culture / Architecture
Mauryan court art and the first monuments
Practise 1 PYQConcepts to cover
- Court art (palace at Kumrahar, pillars, stupas) versus popular art (yakshas, terracottas)
- Monolithic polished pillars: Sarnath lion capital, Rampurva bull, Lauriya Nandangarh, Sankisa
- Barabar and Nagarjuni caves near Gaya cut under Ashoka and Dasharatha for the Ajivikas (Lomas Rishi, Sudama)
- Rock-cut elephant at Dhauli (third century BCE) as the earliest of the exam's comparison set