Buddhism and Hinduism Art
Hinduism Art
- Focused on spiritual concepts
- Simplicity
- lots of drawings of their gods especially shiva
Hinduism Architecture
- Gupta people built an iron pillar near New Dehli that was 23 ft 8 in tall and weighed 6 tons
- Built statues and scluptures of their gods
Stupas/Architecture
- Are one of the oldest Buddhist examples of art and architectures
- THey are holy monuments
- Stupas are filled with sacred images, mantras and the relics of holy beings
- Relic- a part of a deceased holy persons body or belongings kept as an object of reverence
Buddhism Art
- Ir originated on the Indian subcontinent
- in India it was the age of Buddha
- The Indian artists used wood bamboo brick and thatch to make sculptures
- The human image of Buddha was very popular in the art of the Indians
- At first Buddhism was not represented by a human
- This made Buddhism art have paintings such as a footprint and empty seat or a stupa
- Art now had a human figure to sculpt
- Over the years the figure of the Buddha started to change
- it went from being simple to being complicated
Military
India military
- used elephants chariots infantry and archers
- Alexander teh Great invaded and conquered parts of India
- After his death Selecucus gains power over India
- The Magadha King Chadragupta Maury buys the land form Seleucus for 500 elephants
Gupta military
- relied a ot on archers and infantry
- they were very disciplined and had good comanders
- they had a prominent reputation for steel weapons
- maintained a navy so that they could use the coastal waters
- used the longbow very effectively
- had knowledge of siege-craft, catapults, and other war machines
Mauryan military
- had 4 main parts of imfantry- cavalry, elephants, and chariots
- hd shields that were made of leather from ox hide or tiger skin
- shields made of wood or metal were also used
- Used spears maces and swords
- were covered by gold and jewels
- used scale coats for armor in their miliaty
Shishunaga military
- third ruling dynasty of Magahda
- expanded to include most of Bengal
- battled its neighbors and used weapons that they had not access to like chariots with fixed iron blades
Nanda military
- had 200000 infantry 80000calvary 8000 chariots and 6000 war elephants
- extended from Bengal in the east to Punjab in west and as far south as Vindhya
- some say they were the first empire builders of India
Weapons
- used war elephants that were heavily armored and would carry extra weapons and some archers would ride them and fire down upon the enemies
- Bamboo bow- most dominant weapon because of it range and effectiveniess
- Indain Khanda- equal to the samurai sword and used by cavalry
Kalidasa- Indian poet and author that belonged to the Gupta empire
Aryabhata- math metician who started to come up with a numerical value for pi
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