The extant remains of Indian art cover a period of more than two thousand years. During this time many schools of thought have flourished and decayed,, But just as through all Indian schools of thought there runs like a golden thread the fundamental idealism of the Upanishads, the Vedanta, so in all I, CHD_0055.JPG, There is a close analogy between the aims of art and of science.Descriptive science is, of course, concerned only with the record of appearances; but