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Furnish a critical and comparative account of various schools of art in the Post-Mauryan period (c. 200 B.C.-c. 300 A.D.)
- UPSC 1998
- Post-Mauryan Period
The five centuries after the Mauryas saw sculptural art move decisively out of court monopoly into regional idioms sustained by merchants, guilds, and new ruling houses. Three schools dominate the record — Gandhara, Mathura, and Amaravati — each answering the same demand, an image of the Buddha, in strikingly different visual languages.
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- The Political and Patronage Backdrop
- The Gandhara School: A Hellenistic-Buddhist Synthesis
- The Mathura School: The Indigenous Idiom
- The Amaravati School: The Deccan Narrative Idiom
- Comparative Reading
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