Buddhist Sculptures from a Stupa near Goli Village, Guntur District by T. N. RamachandranReview by: W. Norman BrownJournal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Mar., 1932), p. 90Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/593600 .

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The various Indian sciences offer an attractive field of study, as this work illustrates. Some have been treated already; others remain. The exploration of works dealing with them not only assists the student of literature; it may also contribute an item here and there to natural science.

Buddhist Sculptures from a Stupa near Goli Village, Guntur District. By T. N. RAMACHANDRAN. (Bulletin of the Madras

Museum -New Series, General Section, Vol. I, Part 1).

Madras: GOVERNMENT PRESS, 1929. Pp. 47, with 12 plates.

Rs. 2/12.

A handful of sculptures from a stupa mound in the Guntur

region, belonging to the " Amaravati School ", is here briefly,

accurately, and scientifically described by Mr. Ramachandran. Every piece is clearly identified and compared, in tabular arrange-

ment, with similar scenes in other sculpture of the same school.

This table shows the parallel representations, and at the same time

helps in dating the Goli finds, which Mr. Ramachandran considers

from various points of view, and puts in the late (fourth) Amara-

vati period. Mr. Ramachandran's method is one of perfect clarity,

and his small monograph is a good piece of scholarship. While every scene is most plausibly identified, I should make a

small suggestion concerning the details of one. In the case of the

visit of the Buddha to his wife Yasodhard (Plate II F, described

pp. 5-7), I would suggest that instead of reading the scenes from

left to right, we should read them from Tight to left, as in the

Nalagiri scene (Plate III HI). We would then have at the extreme

right Rahula asking his mother to go visit the Buddha, while she

refuses; in the center she would be seated waiting for the Buddha,

while Rdhula, appearing before her, goes to invite him; at the left,

the Buddha is entering the apartment, while Rdhula greets him,

and Yas4odhard, at the extreme left, f alls to her knees. In the

case of Plates I, IV, and VIII, the couples should perhaps be

regarded as auspicious Mithuna couples. There is much more material in the Madras Government

Museum, and in the Madras Presidency, which the Museum could

well consider having Mr. Ramachandran publish.

W. NORMAN BROWN.

University of Pennsylvania.

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