Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c6.4

c6.4

(1) That the rise of the Pāla Empire in Bengal and Bihar gave a great impetus to art in these provinces, which caused great improvement in the plastic art of this country and finally led to the formation of a new school of sculpture in the provinces constituting the first empire of the Pālas.¹ The rise of this school must have taken place soon after the formation of the first empire of the Pālas, viz., in the 9th century A. D.