Exquisite Hoysala sculptures with defaced torsos and amputated arms are cited by some historians as examples of the carnage perpetrated by invading armies in India. A more enlightened interpretation with a greater sense of understanding and love would describe these as the 'sensitive efforts' of Muslim sculptors who superimposed ‘some Islamic elements and Islamic motifs’ on an underlying Hindu aesthetic to bring about a grand synthesis of Hindu and Muslim cultures and traditions’
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| A synthesis of the grand Hindu & Islamic traditions |
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