Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s5.56
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s5.56
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It thus appears that on the strength of the comprehensive basic formula comprising a good number of traditional Indian elements the seated and standing types of Bodhisattva images were perfected in Mathura school of sculpture. Naturally there were variations in the main types due to the intensive fervent of religious thoughts and beliefs amongst the Sarvāstivādī and the Mahāsaṅghika teachers whose activity was primarily responsible for the origin of the Buddha image.