Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.s1.30

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With the making of these images a style of art became established which the artists of the subsequent period were bound to regard as their model. This is what we actually find in the art of the Śuṅga period. The Yaksha images carved in the monuments of Bharhut and Sanchi are the proof of the continuity of the Yaksha tradition both in iconography and in the style of art. The Sanchi and Bharhut Yaksha appear in the direct line of their ancestors, viz. the Yaksha images found at Parkham in the Mathura district and nearer home at Bhilsā and Pawāyā.