- Location: India, Haryana
- Major Scene: Mythology of Hindu character
- Ingredients Used: Stones, Rock
The very most general subjects are like stone and rock in the art department, from the period of Maurya and till the period of Harshavardhana to the empire of British and Mughal. There are sculptures which are invented by the God in the whole world, also Haryana. Within the state Haryana, the sculptures are mostly available in the northern and central region of the Haryana state which is largely a religious place.
For the sculptures, the basic material is stone and rock and also sandstone which are largely used, whether it is available in the colors like gray, green, black and buff. During the Mughal Empire, they stopped making the idols through carving the stone or rock, because it is majorly prohibited in the very basic beliefs of the Muslim religion. When people didn’t ready to obey their order, they took further step, they started destroying the Hindu temples, even some of them were not carved in the stone, they were angry because people crossed their rule path and went against their order.
There are many incarnation of Hindu Gods like Lord Vishnu and also many other goddess which inspired the sculptors to make the use of their talent and carve the very beautiful idols. Despite the idols of the mythology of Hindu, there are also many idols of Jain religion were funded of the ninth Pratihara period. All these Jain Gods idols were carved in the sandstone. The presence of God Buddha also fund at once, in the village Rohtak, where the Buddha founded seated on the carved lotus model and entire this is carved in the stone of grey color.
At the place of Kurukshetra in Haryana, founded the Lord Vishnu’s idol which is such a marvelous example of stone carving art, this idol has 4 arms which are very elegantly reclining over the Anantnag, with several faces snake. As per the researcher, this stone piece is may be created in the tenth century. Despite the pictures of the Hindu goddess and god, there are also some pictures of the Jain god Pratihara was also made in the ninth century, these Jain pictures are also founded.
