History of Indian and Indonesian Art c8.s2.91
History of Indian and Indonesian Art c8.s2.91
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³ One of very few known examples, the others all Gandhāran: see A. S. I., A. R., 1921—22, p. 65; 1922—23, pl. XXV; and J. A. S. B., III, pl. XXVI, i. Figures of Śiwa and of kings on Kuṣāna coins also exhibit shoulder flames. Cf. the “essence of fire and hereditary royalty” of the Devarāja cult (see page 197).