The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c6.16

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such and such a transverse bar; but the rest give us explicit information concerning the subjects which the sculptures claimed to represent. Thus we have to deal with bas-reliefs sufficiently dated and identified beforehand by their authors for the benefit of their contemporaries and of the most distant posterity. In the moving sands of Indian antiquity we can find no better data, nor firmer ground on which to work.