History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v1.c16.44

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¹ One curious peculiarity of these Gandhâra sculptures is that they generally retain the sloping jamb on each side of their openings. In India and in a structural building this peculiarity would certainly fix their age as anterior to the Christian Era. In Gandhâra it is found chiefly in decorative sculpture, but it seems also to have been occasionally employed structurally, as in the small vihâra near Chakdarra fort in Swât, destroyed in 1896 by the Military Works Department. — *Ante*, p. 210, note 2.