Archaeological Remains of Ancient India

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Bharhut, Sunga Era, 2nd Century BC

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Mathura, Kushan Era, 2nd-3rd Century AD




Gandhara, Kushan Era, 2nd-3rd Century AD




Ajanta, Vakataka Era, 4th-6th Century AD




12th century AD, Hoysala Era

Indian women admiring themselves with a mirror throughout history.
 

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Chandraketugarh, Sunga Art, 2nd Century BC


Various scenes. Pretty interesting stuff. We see a lot of stories, iconography that interest some of the Hindus of the time. It's a different look from the common Buddhist works from Sanchi, Bharhut. I think a lot of this was originally outside the Indo-Aryan yet popular, incorporated into the culture later on. Could be totally wrong. Whatever the case, we're seeing prototyping of Hindu iconography. Some stuff from there continued on till even now, some thrown out.
 
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Looking at all these carvings and statues one can easily deduce that Indian society under the influence of the Abrahamic cultures has become extremely prude, which is not good.
 

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Chandraketugarh, Sunga Art, 2nd Century BC

Looking at all these carvings and statues one can easily deduce that Indian society under the influence of the Abrahamic cultures has become extremely prude, which is not good.
Very much so. There are a lot of erotic material that I have not posted in this thread. What is in here is nothing.








Sunga Yakshis
 
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Looking at all these carvings and statues one can easily deduce that Indian society under the influence of the Abrahamic cultures has become extremely prude, which is not good.
When did the cultural shift actual happened?
Upper garments have been depicted in history books for as long as I remember.
 

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When did the cultural shift actual happened?
Upper garments have been depicted in history books for as long as I remember.
Probably after islamic invasions started, and corrupted the native culture. one thing i am noticing in this shunga art is the gender equity. men and women seem to dress the same, women seem to go on hunts too which probably means gender discrimination is absent.

in other words bharat had already reached what the current western abrahamics are aspiring to do achieve. even the nordic countries haven't been able to achieve today what shunga dynasty has achieved in 2th century BCE.
 

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When did the cultural shift actual happened?
Upper garments have been depicted in history books for as long as I remember.
Even with the non-Islamic C. Asian invasions from the Sakas, Hunas, etc. there were only minor changes to Indian tastes, though they did have influences. These people were largely integrated into Indian society. The major changes in architecture, attire, warfare, etc. came about with Islamic C. Asian invasions. They now at this point have a culture that they werent going to reverse, Islamic-Persian. The Indian native upper class copied a lot from their overlords, and it trickles down. It was Indians fault for not learning the lessons from several invasions.
 
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This one is pretty famous.

The Pompeii Lakshmi is a 25cm high Indian ivory statue of a Yakshi (not actually Lakshmi) found in
the ruins and ashes of Pompeii, Italy, which was buried by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79AD. It is
believed made either near Bhodarkan, Maharashtra (where similar figurines have been found) or in
NW India (based on a small Kharoshti sign that reads ‘Shi’ since Kharoshti was prevalent in the NW).


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Chandraketugarh, Sunga Art, 2nd Century BC

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Bhita, Sunga Art, 2nd Century BC

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Besnagar, Sunga Art, 2nd Century BC
 
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Gupta Image of Vishnu

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Gupta Female


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Scene from Gupta Art
 
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Maurya streets


Based on the relief images of Maurya's successors - Sanchi, Bharhut, etc. I remember giving these guys so much references for the Maurya faction in the 0 AD game and they ended up producing something near accurate. Only thing that compares is the old Chanakya series from the 90s.
 
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