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Slice the Mauryan art wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Pillar or stupaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the Buddha's life events and symbolsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Mauryan arts bingoRead the answer and worked solution →In Bharhut sculpture, modelling of the volume is in:Read the answer and worked solution →Queen Mayadevi's dream at Bharhut is shown with a descending:Read the answer and worked solution →Many Bharhut sculptures are displayed at the Indian Museum in:Read the answer and worked solution →Sanchi Stupa-1 has how many decorated toranas?Read the answer and worked solution →From the first century CE, the Buddha got a human form at Mathura and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Gandhara sculptural tradition was a confluence of local tradition with Bactria and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Buddha image at Gandhara has features that are:Read the answer and worked solution →The Mathura Buddha image is modelled on the lines of earlier:Read the answer and worked solution →A famous headless portrait statue found at Mathura is of:Read the answer and worked solution →Sarnath Buddha images have plain transparent drapery covering:Read the answer and worked solution →Amaravati sculptures are preserved in Chennai Museum, National Museum Delhi and the:Read the answer and worked solution →Sannati, the largest stupa site excavated in Karnataka, is in which district?Read the answer and worked solution →The biggest rock-cut chaitya hall in western India was excavated at:Read the answer and worked solution →The vihara cave at Junnar with a later Ganesha image is popularly called:Read the answer and worked solution →Kanheri in Mumbai has how many excavated caves?Read the answer and worked solution →Ajanta, in Aurangabad district, has how many caves?Read the answer and worked solution →Varahadeva, patron of Ajanta Cave 16, was prime minister of the Vakataka king:Read the answer and worked solution →The best preserved Padmapani and Vajrapani paintings at Ajanta are in:Read the answer and worked solution →Ellora has how many Buddhist, Brahmanical and Jain caves?Read the answer and worked solution →Ellora Cave 16, a temple carved from a single rock, is known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Bagh Cave 4, with visible wall and ceiling paintings, is known as:Read the answer and worked solution →The Elephanta Caves near Mumbai are dominated by which faith?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Ajanta patronsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the western cave sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the cave countsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the Mauryan art words

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Does not match the category
  1. Isobar
  2. Ledger
  3. Piston
  4. Sonnet
Matches the category
  1. Abacus
  2. Chauri
  3. Yakshi
  4. Chaitya
  5. Jataka
Instructions
Slice only the Mauryan art words. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus An Introduction to Indian Art, Chapter 3, Arts of the Mauryan Period._

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Pillar or stupa

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Upper category
Pillar
Lower category
Stupa
Items
  1. Category
    Pillar
    Item
    Abacus
  2. Category
    Pillar
    Item
    Capital
  3. Category
    Pillar
    Item
    Shaft
  4. Category
    Pillar
    Item
    Lotus bell
  5. Category
    Stupa
    Item
    Anda
  6. Category
    Stupa
    Item
    Harmika
  7. Category
    Stupa
    Item
    Chhatra
  8. Category
    Stupa
    Item
    Torana
Instructions
Send each part to the pillar track or the stupa track.
_Source: syllabus An Introduction to Indian Art, Chapter 3, Arts of the Mauryan Period._

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Sort the Buddha's life events and symbols

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Items
  1. Group
    Life event
    Item
    Birth
  2. Group
    Life event
    Item
    Renunciation
  3. Group
    Life event
    Item
    First sermon
  4. Group
    Symbol
    Item
    Footprints
  5. Group
    Symbol
    Item
    Lotus throne
  6. Group
    Symbol
    Item
    Chakra
  7. Group
    Jataka
    Item
    Chhadanta
  8. Group
    Jataka
    Item
    Vessantara
  9. Group
    Jataka
    Item
    Sibi
Groups
  1. Item
    Life event
  2. Item
    Symbol
  3. Item
    Jataka
Instructions
Drop each clue onto life event, symbol or Jataka.
_Source: syllabus An Introduction to Indian Art, Chapter 3, Arts of the Mauryan Period._

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