Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c5.31

c5.31

Specimens of the Gandhāra School of Art have been discovered for the most part in Afghanistan and Western Punjab. Very few of them have been found in the Eastern Punjab, while stray specimens have been discovered so far east as Mathurā. The Gandhāra School does not seem to have directly influenced the other schools of sculpture of India proper, which Dr. Smith called the schools of Interior India; though it did make its influence felt through another great school of Indian sculpture, the Mathurā School, which came into direct contact with Benares and Amarāvatī.