Principles of Composition in Hindu Sculpture: Cave Temple Period

The present study represents an approach to a hitherto unexplored aspect of Hindu sculpture. It deals with premedival sculpture concentrating exclusively on the question of composition have resulted from a careful analysis of the great sculpture of the Rock-Temples at Elura, Badami Mahabalipuram and others of the pre-medival period of the Rastrakuta, Calukya and Pallava Schools.