The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c7.s1.2

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[We have not deemed it necessary to encumber this short notice with a detailed account of the more or less successful attempts which have already been made with a view to the interpretation of the sculptures of Sânchî. The principal publication treating of them, after the first essay of CUNNINGHAM, *The Bhilsa Topes* (London, 1854), is that of FERGUSSON, *Tree and Serpent-Worship* (2d ed., London, 1873, reproducing the identifications proposed by BEAL, *Journ. of the Roy. As. Soc.*, new series, V, 1871, pp. 164 and sqq.) :