Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c5.29

c5.29

(3) The introduction of a new style in basrelief representing a large number of incidents from the life of Gautama Buddha. The Gandhāra artists not only represented the principal scenes from the life of the Master, *i.e.*, the birth, the enlightenment, the first sermon and the death, but also those of his previous births. This school of sculpture has been very minutely studied and largely illustrated. The standard authorities on Indian Buddhist iconography and more specially on the Gandhāra School of sculpture are the works of M. A. Foucher, whose well-known work on the subject "L'Art Græco-Bouddhique du Gandhāra,"² is the latest pronouncement on the subject. This work contains the illustrations and identification of almost all the scenes from the master's life or *Jātakas*, which have as yet been discovered.