Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c14.37
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c14.37
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c14.37
Iconographically the art of Gandhara accepted the life-story of Buddha, images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Jātaka scenes, Hellenistic scenes and gods and goddesses, other Indian male and female deities, foreign architectural elements, Indian decorative motifs and miscellaneous figures and designs from Iran, Bactria and India. The life-scenes of Buddha mostly in bas-reliefs are exceptionally rich in Gandharan art, unexcelled by many other centres of Buddhist art in India or elsewhere. The range of subjects and the variety of their representation have been treated with great zest as shown in the following list of the life-scenes :—