KAS Mains Test 03-1 - Ancient Indian Art and Architecture - PDF

Test **5] Mouryas Art and architecture:** Mouryas are the one of the earliest empire to rule the India. They have contributed immensely to art and architecture though the literary sources and relics of the architecture are not completely found. Mouryan art and architecture are divided to court art...

Test **5] Mouryas Art and architecture:** Mouryas are the one of the earliest empire to rule the India. They have contributed immensely to art and architecture though the literary sources and relics of the architecture are not completely found. Mouryan art and architecture are divided to court art and popular art. court art includes palaces, pillars, stupas and popular art includes sculptures, caves, paintings **Mouryan's Art and Architecture** * Court Art * Palaces * Pillers * Stupas * Popular Art * caves * sculptures * paintings **Court art!** * Palaces - main building material during the mouryans time is wood. The palace is designed with intercate carvings of various images and designs * The important palace is Ashoka's three storey building at umragarh. * Pillers & Pellers are used to propagate dhammas and other important things. Usually pillers are 40ft. hight and are monolithic. It consist of capital, shaft and prafound. * Capital * Lion/bull (animal) * dharmachalera * shaft * profound * Important piller is Saranath pillers, varanasi from which our national-emblem is taken * Stupas - Stupas are burrial mounds of relics of royal families and budda's * ex: piprahnandigarh stupa * Popular Art! * Caves - caves are used by royal families to propagate monarch to stay there and propagate the religion. * the inner caves are painted with various dengos * ex: Barbara caves are given by Ashoka to agrvika Sect. * Sculptures - Sculptures are patronized by royal family. * Sculptures are used for decoration purpose. * Yaksha and Yakshini image, various buddha images are found from that era. * paintings - paintings are also used for decoration purpose mainly contains buddha and buddhism * From above points it is clearly visible that Moury's contributed immensely to indias ant and architecture