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See a man playing the mridangam drum of the Karnatak music tradition
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Watch a man playing the sarod, a stringed instrument of Hindustani music
Pallavi Krishnan Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India: Mahabodhi temple Buddha sculpture at Mahabodhi temple elevation of a North Indian temple with the latina type of superstructure elevation of a North Indian temple with the śekharī type of superstructure plan of the sanctum of a South Indian temple
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Southern gopura of the Shiva temple at Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India, c. 1248.
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Among the most important, and perhaps the earliest, remains in northern India are reliefs from the great stupa at Bharhut, dating approximately to the middle of the 2nd century bce. The work, suggesting a style imitating wooden sculpture, is characterized by essentially cubical forms, flat planes that meet at sharp angles, and very elaborate and precisely detailed ornamentation of surfaces. Most of the sculpture was confined to the railing of the stupa. Some of the supporting posts bear large image of yakshas and yakshis of popular religion, now clearly pressed into the service of Buddhism, while most of the others ...(100 of 82044 words)

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