Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c9.s3.4
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c9.s3.4
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CULTURAL BACKGROUND : The above geographical statement shows that India was at the centre of a wheel with peripheral expansions in which her culture and inter-continental commerce were countable factors. In this picture *Paipīlika* gold from Siberian river-washings was coming to India by trade-routes across the Pamir, Chinese silk and Central Asian jade came into the hands of Indian marchants, and traders from India reached Babylon with their peacocks and Egypt and Western Asia with their cotton and teak.