Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s5.69
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s5.69
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In the Bacchanalian scenes Bacchus is replaced by Kubera seated on mount Kailāsa. He himself is depicted as pot-bellied and wearing a *dhotī*, but his attendants are shown with Hellenistic dress. It should be remembered that the Gandhāra motifs are only a very small fraction of the total output of the Mathura school of sculpture. Only about a dozen sculptures out of five thousand show these foreign features. The genius of the master artists at Mathura developed in its full bloom in accordance with their own traditions and they have blazed a trail of glory that was hardly excelled and that served as the model for the succeeding generations.