Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t2.2

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The Sārnāth school, now exhausted from centuries of its highest conception and continuous creation, lingers in reminiscences of the past.¹²³ On broader, and therefore securer, foundations than the exalted refinement of Sārnāth genius, the central Indian artists impart the leavings of Gupta art with the now frequently inevitable Dekkhanī flavour¹²⁴ (Fig. 65).