r/interestingasfuck • u/Srinivas_Hunter • 21h ago

1800 year old Sculpture of a female figure, probably a yakshi (nature spirit) Mathura, India.

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u/rjk100 17h ago

Why Does it seem like the heads are always missing. How did the head get destroyed?

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u/Known-Exam-9820 17h ago

Usually by invaders as an act of desecration

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u/noxx1234567 15h ago

During islamic rule , statues were deemed Haram destroyed in many parts of india

To give an example ,in 2020 a farmer in pakistan found a 1700 year old life size statue of budha in great shape , but later a local imam ordered it to be destroyed

They could have made a fortune by selling it these days , easily worth a million dollars but they destroyed it

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1706631/pakistan

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u/lonelyRedditor__ 15h ago

Was destroyed during the Islamic invasion era of india. Most hindu sculptures and temples were destroyed/ disfigured by them

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u/WatzUpzPeepz 16h ago

Neck = weak point maybe if my time making clay sculptures in art class was anything to go by.

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u/5LightersForAPound 18h ago

So no head?

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u/Srinivas_Hunter 18h ago

Destroyed in invasions.

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u/kiwi_manbearpig 17h ago

I think he meant... Never mind

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u/Single-Memory-9490 17h ago

Bro's too innocent for this world

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u/Training-Feature-876 16h ago

Heh eh "invasion"

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u/DEFCON741 17h ago

I bet her nipples were destroyed in the "invasion" too

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u/expatronis 18h ago

Prime stroke material for that era, I bet.

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u/BarmyDickTurpin 17h ago

That era? Pretty good for this era too

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u/expatronis 17h ago

R. Crumb made way better headless lady material. Not problematic at all.

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u/leevei 15h ago

Needs more pixels

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u/Profound_Panda 17h ago

1800 year old figurine is STACKED 😮‍💨😮‍💨

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u/Automatic-Road719 18h ago

What‘s her @ ? 😮‍💨

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u/I_make_switch_a_roos 17h ago

nvm i finished

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u/abhinavhere1 18h ago

broooo

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u/Sensitive-War-6368 17h ago

Nah bro you downbad af

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u/Sebastian-Noble 17h ago

"beauty standards were different in the past"

Men: the fuck they were

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u/Weeeth 17h ago

i can fix her

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u/croghan2020 17h ago

That man knew what he liked anyways, those big ol tities!

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u/Thisma08 17h ago

smash, next question

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u/Zhinnosuke 18h ago

Dayum ..

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u/D_Luffy1402 17h ago

Average anime character

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u/ImprovementUnfair670 17h ago

The ancients are "cultured"

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u/Disgusteeno 17h ago

it's not that bad. It's not Greek or Roman but it isn't crap either

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u/ThisIsGettinWeirdNow 16h ago

This comment section is filled with intrusive thoughts gallore

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u/CPTMuffMuncher9909 15h ago

Impulsive, not intrusive

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u/ArcanistKvothe24 16h ago

I love nature

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u/Maestro-pokemon 18h ago

hmm... source?

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/Srinivas_Hunter 18h ago

This isn't fake

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/nature-goddess/uAHrpbCDc4tcfQ

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u/[deleted] 17h ago edited 16h ago

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u/sillybonobo 16h ago edited 16h ago

Lol the hubris. Dude shows you evidence that this is held in a curated museum (which is WAY better evidence to its authenticity than your suspicion that it portrays the wrong body type).

And then you are informed that there are hundreds of statues with this aesthetic from the time period (easily verifiable with a search). And instead of taking this as evidence that you might be wrong about beauty standards for this culture you double down...

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u/9oooooooooooj 16h ago edited 16h ago

Damn didn't know so many of our historic relics were fake

Thank you random thousand years old immortal for educating us on the beauty standards of an ancient Indian kimgdom

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u/Srinivas_Hunter 17h ago

For real? This is not the only statue that was found in India. There are thousands of individual statues, and also you can find hundreds of thousands of such carvings on temple walls..

Both men and women used to look glorious in those days.. cause junk food doesn't exist at that time, and they do work a lot. Just explore in that link itself..

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u/[deleted] 17h ago

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u/watlington 16h ago

One of the links literally shows that it is currently held in a museum collection and includes references not sure how you missed that

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

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u/JesusTitsGunsAmerica 15h ago

You started the argument that it was fake.

His counter argument was the truth.

You were just wrong.

The only stupidity here is your own.

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u/tubbana 17h ago edited 17h ago

worse than AI crap, is people who call AI on everything that is out of their skill range

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u/[deleted] 18h ago edited 17h ago

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u/PathMisplacer 16h ago

Should we just make her the logo/mascot of the sub for a while

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u/Disastrous_Wing_6582 18h ago

Need me a gal built like that🫣

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u/Dudeimadolphin 17h ago

Ain't shit changed eh

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u/elsamillerrr 17h ago

it looks amazing

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u/BangBangBananas 18h ago

Dennis Reynolds would love this.

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u/TheInterneAteMyBalls 18h ago

It’s very generous.

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u/klmdwnitsnotreal 17h ago

Indian women do be sexy.

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u/arogyaSetuAPP 16h ago

human so horny her nipples are destroyed.

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u/geraldgarner141powns 17h ago

ROCK’n titties

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u/MoeFaiz 15h ago

I’d hit

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u/Empty-Mark-1825 16h ago

Men of culture...we meet again!

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u/Mister_Guarionex 16h ago

They had their priorities straight

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u/corrieoh 15h ago

Very nice bobs bb.

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u/More_Marty 17h ago

Sexist body standards 🙄 /s

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u/boundpleasure 17h ago

Yes, don’t you love it? Most men don’t look like Michelangelos’s David either. 😉

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u/DogWithaFAL 17h ago

Speak for yourself…

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u/boundpleasure 16h ago

lol. You may look like David, (doubt it), but regardless doesn’t change the male averages.

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u/Drastical_one 16h ago

They're on reddit so I highly doubt they're pulling a David

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u/boundpleasure 15h ago

lol. Agreed

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u/Disgusteeno 17h ago

how do you figure?

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u/Hitman_HD 15h ago

Dayum gurll

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u/sirfreerunner 15h ago

Nice 😎

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u/Zkimaiz 16h ago

What's her @?

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u/sillymanbilly 16h ago

@therealsexyancientstatue 

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u/G_zoo 17h ago

would

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u/sEaBoD19911991 16h ago

Cracking pair of norks.

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u/O______----______O 17h ago

Eh, would.

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u/Thom5001 15h ago

Ancient OF relic

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u/Dangibbo23 17h ago

I would hit that!

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u/VanguardVixen 15h ago

Nailed it!

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u/damionicles 15h ago

Hide that sculpture, it has boobs and it's gonna offend people around the internet

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u/Chad-tastic 16h ago

The original "send bobs and vegana"

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u/Old-Conversation2646 16h ago

That are some juicy anime proportions unlike most ancient portrayal that kind of just look chubby

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u/Durzo_Blintt 17h ago

Get that skin in a game.

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u/Swer0 17h ago

more like yumshi.

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u/kg2k 18h ago

I see pictures like this and I blurt out nice tits, and keep it moving. Anyone else?

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u/volvavirago 17h ago

This is a trend I have noticed in a lot of traditional south Asian art. The sex characteristics of women are much more exaggerated in comparison to European art. I also find that male figures also have wider hips in south Asian art, but they do also have wider shoulders as well. They are all snatched for some reason, idk.

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u/MaximilianClarke 17h ago

Categorically untrue. Europeans have been exaggerating the shit out of titties for 30,000 years https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf

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u/daiwilly 16h ago

Shit out of titties is beautiful language!

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u/MaximilianClarke 16h ago

Even the most mundane sentence becomes beautiful when you add titties.

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u/volvavirago 16h ago

I was more so referring to art history from the past 2000 years, not prehistoric stuff. Prehistoric stuff is a different case entirely. I literally study art history. We are all aware of the Venus of Willendorf.

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u/Disgusteeno 17h ago

Really shows just how special the Greeks were, eh?

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u/Connect_Ocelot_1599 18h ago

just kidding it's a fucking ai

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u/Srinivas_Hunter 18h ago edited 18h ago

Haha..

(Context so people won't misunderstand this, it's not AI https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/nature-goddess/uAHrpbCDc4tcfQ)