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Another important factor, which Fergusson himself admits, is that the Persepolitan ‘features are only found on the *lats* of Asoka, and are never seen afterwards in India, though common in Gandhara and on the Indus long afterwards . . . Persian form of capital long retained its position in Indian art.’¹ It is not stated how and why the Persian form did not influence the other Indian types, but the fundamental differences in the Indian types are explained : ‘whatever the Hindus *copied*, however, was changed in course of time, by decorative additions and modifications, in accordance with their own taste.’ With such an assumption any slight similarity in the most ordinary things of any two countries or peoples may establish relation of indebtedness of any one of the two to the other.