Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s6.34
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s6.34
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A group of half a dozen heads wearing either the conical hat which distinguished the Tigra-khauda branch of Śakas or a flat-topped conical cap with woollen exterior, may be classified under portraits. Two of them bear monograms, viz. nāyasa and lavaṇa and are marked by royal dignity. One of these heads now in the Budapest Museum wears a cylindrical tapering cap with ornamental parallel patterns and is adorned in front with a rosette enclosing an unopened bud in the centre which is typical of the head-gear decoration during the Kushāṇa period. [Fig. 160].