Great Bath

Mohenjo-Daro, Pakistan

2600-1900 BCE

Figure 6-2 Robed male figure, from Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan, ca. 2600-1900 BCE. Steatite, 6 7/8" high. National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi.

Seal with seated figure in yogic posture, from Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan, ca. 2600-1900 BCE. Steatite coated with alkali and baked, approx. 1 3/8" X 1 3/8". National Museum, New Delhi.

Lion capital of column erected by Ashoka at Sarnath, India, ca. 250 BCE. Polished sandstone, approx. 7' high. Archaeological Museum, Sarnath.

Great Stupa, Sanchi, India, third century BCE to first century CE (View from the east).

Yakshi, detail of eastern gateway, Great Stupa, Sanchi, India, mid first century BCE to early first century CE.

Interior of chaitya hall, Karle, India, ca. 100 CE.

Section of chaitya hall, Karle, India, ca. 100 CE.

Meditating Buddha, from Gandhara, Pakistan, second century CE. Gray schist, 3' 7 1/2" high. Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh.

The life and death of the Buddha, frieze from Gandhara, Pakistan, second century CE. Schist, 2' 2 3/8" X 9' 6 1/8". Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Buddha seated on lion throne, from Mathura, India, second century CE. Red sandstone, 2' 3 1/2" high. Archaeological Museum, Muttra.

Seated Buddha preaching first sermon, from Sarnath, India, second half of fifth century. Tan sandstone, 5' 3" high. Archaeological Museum, Sarnath.

Bodhisattva Padmapani, wall painting in Cave 1, Ajanta, India, second half of fifth century.

Boar avatar of Vishnu rescuing the earth, Cave 5, Udayagiri, India, early fifth century. Relief approx 22' X 13'; Vishnu 12' 8" high.

Dancing Shiva, rock-cut relief in cave temple, Badami, India, late sixth century.

Shiva as Mahadeva, Cave 1, Elephanta, India, ca. 550-575. Basalt, Shiva 17' 10" high

Vishnu Temple, Deogarh, India, early sixth century.

Vishnu asleep on the serpent Ananta, detail of facade of the Vishnu Temple, Deogarh, India, early sixth century.

Rock-cut temples, Mamallapuram, India, second half of seventh century. From left to right: Dharmaraja, Bhima, Arjuna, and Draupadi rathas.

Rajarajeshvara Temple, Thanjavur, India, ca. 1010

Vishvanatha Temple, Khajuraho, India, ca. 1000. (View looking northwest and plan).

Sculptures on temple wall, Vishvanatha Temple, Khajuraho, India, ca. 1000.

Shiva as Nataraja, bronze in the Naltunai Ishvaram Temple, Punjai, India, ca. 1000.

Death of the Buddha (Parinirvana), Gal Vihara, near Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, eleventh to twelfth century. Granulite, Buddha approx. 46' long.

Borobudur, Java, Indonesia, ca. 800.

Harihara, from Prasat Andet, Cambodia, early seventh century. Stone, 6' 3" high. National Museum, Phnom Penh.

Angkor Wat, Angkor, Cambodia, first half of twelfth century

Bayon, Angkor Thom, Cambodia, ca. 1200.