The victory monuments consist in two pillars, with various other sculptural elements pointing to the existence of a former temple at this spot.[3]
Style
The art and style of the sculptural remains at Sodani are considered as a good marker of the final period of
Yasodharman (ruled 515 – 545 CE), and more precisely to about 525 CE.[4][5] After that point and for the next centuries, Indian politics became extremely fragmented, with the territory being divided between smaller dynasties.[6] The art of Sondani is considered as transitional between Gupta art and the art of Medieval India: it represents "an aesthetic which hovered between the classical decorum of Gupta art on the one hand and on the other the medieval canons which subordinated the figure to the larger religious purpose".[7]
The Sondani site in 1908
Plan of Sondani
Sondani overview
Sondani pillar
Sondani, two
Dvarapalas
National Museum, New Delhi
Sondani pillar capital
Info of Victory pillar of Yashodharman at Sondani, Mandsaur
^Punjab Monitor, April 2013 [1], from Fleet, John F. Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum: Inscriptions of the Early Guptas. Vol. III. Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publications Branch, 1888, 147-148.
The Sondani site in 1908
Plan of Sondani
Sondani overview
Sondani pillar
Sondani, twoDvarapalas
National Museum, New Delhi
Sondani pillar capital
Info of Victory pillar of Yashodharman at Sondani, Mandsaur
Sondani reliefs
