The aim of this paper is to describe the growth of sculptures during the chola period from 850 to 1270 A.D. Art can generally be classified into two types on the basis of its characteristics, the one static and the other plastic. Dance and music are plastic while architecture is static. Time and space are also the basis in categorizing the art into different classes. By this way the art is classified into three major divisions, i.e., the art in time, the art in space and the art in time and space. Of these the sculpture comes under the static art which depends upon time and space.