Indian Sculpture c9.103

c9.103

76. The earliest sporadic occurrence of the Hellenic contrapost belongs to the middle of the second century A.D. (for instance, the two figures of guardian deities in back view, Bachhofer, op. cit., Pl. 126). Examples of the later second century and of the third century are: Fergusson, op. cit., Pl. LXXXII, 1; Annual Bibliography of Indian Archæology, 1927, Pl. VI a, from Nāgārjunikoṇḍa.