Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c5.3
Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c5.3
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¹ Such is the case with the statues discovered at Patna and now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. (Anderson's Catalogue and Hand-book of the Archæological Collections in the Indian Museum, Part I, pp. 151-57). According to Mr. K. P. Jayaswal they belong to the Śaiśunāka period; circa 6th century B.C. (Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, Vol. V, pp. 88-106 and Vol. VI, pp. 40-50), while according to others they belong to a later date—Ibid., Vol. VI, pp. 474-89. Indian Antiquary, Vol. XLVIII, pp. 25-36.