Nearly one millennium ago, the Chandelas of Central India gathered a bend of carves of stone who set to hew images of beautiful dances and robust men, Nymphs and Apsaras, Yakshas and Yakshnies, God and Goddesses, birds and animals, fruits and flowers. Their imagination ran riot. They could think of anything and would carve it in stone. They would not only create works of art, but would relate to each of them. They would sit with those images and talk to them. ...
