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![Mridanga; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
[Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London]](https://web.archive.org/web/20100630214127im_/http://www.britannica.com/static/bps-static-content/20100623-1346/images/darwin/shared/spacer_htc.gif "Mridanga; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Mridanga; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.[Credit: Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London]
Pallavi Krishnan performing the mohini attam.[Credit: K K Gopalakrishnan]
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.
Elevation of a South Indian temple with the kūṭina type of …
Southern gopura of the Śiva temple at Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India, c. ad 1248[Credit: P. Chandra]
Steatite seal, Indus valley civilization, c. 2300–c. 1750 bce; in the National …[Credit: P. Chandra]
Steatite seal, the Indus valley civilization, c. 2300–c. 1750 bce; in the …[Credit: P. Chandra]
Dagger with a horse-head handle, steel, jade, gold, rubies, diamond, and emerald, from India, …[Credit: Photograph by L. Mandle. Honolulu Academy of Arts, gift of Drs. Edmund J. and Julie Lewis, 2002 (11851.1)]
The art of Sri Lanka is closely allied to that of India but presents several distinctive features that make a separate treatment convenient. There is, first, the considerable transformation of Indian influences, resulting in an idiom of great power and individuality. Sri Lanka also often served as a geographical pocket in which styles that had disappeared in India were preserved, which accounts for the anachronistic features of some phases of Sinhalese art. It also appears that although predominant influences were from neighbouring southern India, this was not exclusively so, and styles flourishing in ... (100 of 87165 words)
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