History of Indian and Indonesian Art c8.s2.80

c8.s2.80

It is evident from what has been said, and from the illustrations, that a type of Buddha image had been created at Mathurā independently of any Hellenistic prototype; and that this Mathurā type was transported to many other sacred sites, for at the very beginning of Kaniṣka's reign we find Mathurā "sending down images to the sacred sites of the Gangetic plains, thus setting examples to the sculptors of Benares and Gayā”¹.