Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s6.32
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s6.32
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The third statue from the Māṭ Devakula is a headless torso labelled as Shastana which is understood to be but another form of Chashtana (Tiastenes of Ptolemy), the Śaka-Satrap of Ujjayinī. He appears in the form of a young prince wearing trousers and a long coat secured by a beautiful belt made of square and round plaques, adorned with Scythian horsemen and tritons with forked tails (mahoraga). The presence of this statue in the gallery of Kushāṇa portraits is significant, indicating that he was a junior contemporary of Kanishka and probably related to him. This statue has all the strong points of the art of portraiture (pratikriti) in which the main stress was given to the resemblance (sādriśya) to the original form. [Fig. 159].