Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c10.s1.1
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c10.s1.1
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c10.s1.1
As specimens of the earlier tradition of the worship of the Mother-Goddess, we find a number of ring-stones distributed from Taxila to Pāṭaliputra. They are of hard sandstone in black, violet or slate colour and are of flat discoiled form, with or without a hole in the centre and showing the Mother-Goddess in various combinations or only having plural geometrical patterns. The specimens obtained so far are as follows :