Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c5.53

c5.53

There was also a school of sculpture at Mathurā, during the period of domination of Northern India by the emperors of the early Gupta dynasty, but it did not evince any signs of rejuvenation. The sculptures of this period are merely degenerate imitations of the earlier productions of the Kushān period and continue to decrease in number until the close of the early Gupta period, when the Mathurā School may be supposed to have come to a sudden termination. It is therefore unnecessary to discuss the sculptures of the later or early Gupta period of the Mathurā School in this connection.