Abstract
In India, dance is connected with religion and dancers were considered as the servants of gods who performed to please them. There are few
Gandhara reliefs which depict dance scenes signifying the popularity of
this recreational art in the region. The present paper aims to reveal the
fact that dance had been an essential attribute of the lives of the people of Gandhara region by exploring and exemplifying the Gandharan panels depicting dance scenes. The paper also analyses the dance scenes in terms of dance technical terminology.
Kiran Shahid Siddiqui. (2019) Dance Scenes in the Panels of Gandhara Art: An Insight to the Recreational Activities of Ancient Gandhara, Journal of Asian Civilizations, Volume 42, Issue 2.
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