Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c9.14
Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c9.14
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The colonisation of Java was probably a sequence of the final collapse of the Sâka power in India at the beginning of the fifth century, when the Sâka kingdom of Sarâshtra, or Kâthiâwâr, was conquered by Chandragupta II.¹ After that Brahmanism supplanted Buddhism as the principal state religion in India. The Buddhist art-traditions went with the Sâka immigrants into Java, where they reached their highest expression in the magnificent sculptures of Bôrôbudûr. In India they still continued to flourish under the patronage of Hindu rulers.