Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c32.6

c32.6

¹²⁵ The ‘continuous branch’ first appears in India at Barāhat (Cunningham’s ‘Bharhut Stupa,’ Pl. XL.) § Mr. Vincent Smith truly remarks: “The way in which Indian sculptors of the Kushān period adopted Græco-Roman fashions and mixed them up with the familiar Persian forms may be compared with the modern practice of mingling European and Asiatic designs without much regard to congruity”; but the artistic result was of equally small value in both cases. Perhaps, too, the sculptors, or some of them, were not Indians, but themselves ‘Greeko-Romans.’