F telll between Bl’fima and Duryodhana Third quarter of the 10th

F telll between Bl’fima and Duryodhana Third quarter of the 10th century Pink sandstone — 1.89 x 2.42 rn. From Banteay Srei (Siem Reap). Inventory no. C 32.10. Kaurava, and in front of him Bhima‘s four brothers seem to From the little temple of encourage their elder brother Banteay SYEL this triangular The sculptor succeeded in pediment is decorated With an isolating Duryodhana Without undulating pitch, which frames upsetting the overall balance the typanum on which an of the composition episode of the Mahabharata IS All the figures wear the finely depicted The scene is based pleated sampot with its tumed on a skillul distribution of the down border and different triangle. the pom! of which IS ornaments sculpted with great lormed by the diagonal of elegance in this scene, the Bhima's body, readyto lump figures In high reliel seem to and that of the swing plow detach themselves from the 1 held by Balarama, the brother bare background to express of the tour-armed Krishna their Violence, their stmggle, Below the ~terrible“ Pandava is Without ever detracting from his cousin Duryodhana. the the harmonious composmon ”inv1nc1ble"chielolthe ol the whole