{"id":4616,"date":"2019-10-01T17:36:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2019-10-01T17:36:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T12:06:10","slug":"general-studies-paper-1-upsc-mains-2019-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/general-studies-paper-1-upsc-mains-2019-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"GENERAL STUDIES PAPER \u2013 1 (UPSC MAINS 2019) Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Highlight the Central Asian and Greco Bactrian elements in the Gandhara art.<\/strong><strong>10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Model answer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gandhara art, developed in Northwest India during Kushanas is an excellent combination of central Asian and Greco Bactrian elements.<br \/>\nCentral Asian element<\/p>\n<p>1)Drapery of Buddha statues similar to Parthian (modern Iran)drapery in Hellenistic cultures..<\/p>\n<p>2)curly hair of Buddha statue also resembles similarity with parthian style.<\/p>\n<p>3)disc shaped halo around Buddha head similar to Persian culture of reverence to sun.<\/p>\n<p>Greek element<\/p>\n<p>1)Many of Buddha sculptures of gandhara period also includes Greek God Hercules as protector..<\/p>\n<p>2)face of Buddha resembles Apollo( a greek god)<\/p>\n<p>3)some coins found in gandhar region had Greek script and pictographs of Greek gods<\/p>\n<p>Hence foreign cultures affected Gandhara art , which portrays a beautiful mix of Indian and foreign influence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlight the Central Asian and Greco Bactrian elements in the Gandhara art.10 Model answer Gandhara art, developed in Northwest India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-i","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}