History of Indian and Indonesian Art c8.s2.7
History of Indian and Indonesian Art c8.s2.7
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² Spooner, 1, remarks that the evolution of Indra and Brahmā "was an accomplished fact prior to any form of the Gandhāra school with which we are acquainted". One aspect of Vajrapāṇi too, seems to derive from old Indian *yakṣa* forms. See also Bachhofer, 2 and Grünwedel, *Athene-Vajrapāṇi*, Jahrb. k. Preuß. Kunstsamml., 1915.