The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c10.56
The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c10.56
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¹ And doubtless, of all people of low caste : for the costume of his order of mendicant brothers Buddha would quite naturally have chosen the coarsest material of the cheapest colour. At least we do not see that the tradition relative to the *kâshâya*, if it had any meaning, can at the bottom signify anything else. For its variations in form cf. also *Art gréco-bouddhique du Gandhâra*, p. 369.