Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 12. (Budapest, 1970)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Sivaramamurti, C: The Expressive Quality of Indian Sculpture

A young king valorous, and ruling with great ability, has been praised, by showing the side-locks, indicating his youth, as it is only young boys, who could wear these. The king, as the abode of prosperity and learning, Sri and Sarasvati, is again indicated in a suggestive way, on another Gupta coin (fig. 7b), where the goddesses flank the prince. As given by Bana, the famous poet, the necklace of pearls, served as the boundary line between the goddess of prosperity on the chest and the goddess of learning in the mouth. The single strung bow on a coin indicated that the king who had issued the coin was the only bowman to be reckoned on earth (fig. 7c). From Amaravati, there is a sculpture which indicates the plea for righteous warfare, dharma-yuddha, as it shows that only a horseman fights a horseman, a foot-soldier another foot-soldier, an elephant-rider equally matched and charioteer also similarly. A whole series of Nayikabheda, loving damsels distinguished by special traits of their moods towards their lovers, is here in a sculpture from Bhuvanesvar indicated. The damsel is impatient. Her very attitude, her hand on Fig. 7

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—c. Coins from the Satavahana and Gupta periods