Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c14.33
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c14.33
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This range is supported by the coins deposited in the foundations of the most of the monuments and also as they were in loose circulation in the regions enumerated above and lying to the south-east and the north-west of Hindukush. A firm point in the chronology of Gandhāra is now furnished by the trilingual Aśokan inscription found near Kandhar. The first period of creativity of the school came to an end about 250 A. D. when the Sassanians conquered the country. With the arrival of the Kidāra Kushāṇas from Bactria about 390 A. D. Gandhāra art entered on a new phase of creative activity in stucco medium. This coincided with the art of the Gupta period in India and is distinguished by a unique flowering of Indian motifs and style.