The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c8.36

c8.36

II. Photograph taken by the author in 1897; for the description cf. pp. 119-120. This magnificent Buddha is, moreover, not the only masterpiece possessed by the English officers of the native regiment of the King's Own Corps of Guides. Their collection is one of the finest that we have met with, and there is nothing surprising in the fact, if we reflect that their garrison is placed in the centre of ancient Gandhāra (cf. ibid., p. 27, or Sur la frontière indo-afghane, p. 39, and the maps at the end of those works).