The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c8.20

c8.20

Of the two elements, the Greek and the Buddhist, which concurred in the production of our Gandhâra statues, we comprehend then already the second. It remains to explain the intervention of the first. But this is a story already familiar to you, and it will be sufficient if I recall it in a few words; or rather I should like to give you an illustration and, as it were, a direct apprehension of it, by putting before your eyes the most artistic of the documents — or, if you prefer, the most documentary of the works of art — I mean the coins.