关于太阳神苏利耶图像

A Study on the Image of Sūrya, the Sun God

本文围绕印度的苏利耶图像、至后笈多时期的古代期为中心,探索有关苏利耶图像的历史变迁、图像变化,以及苏利耶图像外来表现形式的由来,及其图像系统。探明苏利耶图像在塞族.帕提亚时期、贵霜时期、笈多后期几经演变,形成了多种多样的图像变化,那些造型变化都是以吠陀以来的苏利耶形象为基础。而苏利耶图像中非常浓厚的外来影响与历史因素密切相关,这就是苏利耶图像的特征。

Focusing on images of the Indian god Surya depicted in records from ancient India to the Post- Gupta period, this paper explores the historical and iconographical changes the images underwent as well as certain iconographical forms from outside of India. This research discusses the visual changes of the Surya image from the Parthiam Seythian and Kushan periods to the later Gupta period, plotting an iconographical transformation that would later underlay the images of Surya from the Vedic period on. The strong alien influence that can be seen in these images is closely related to the historical elements of this process of change and is characteristic of the Surya images.