Indian Sculpture c9.9

c9.9

3. Sir John Marshall, *Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Valley Civilisation*, Pl. XCVIII; A K. Coomaraswamy, *History of Indian and Indonesian Art*, Pl. I. Mesopotamian affinities cannot be interpreted as influences if it can be proved that they proceed from the same root. The main and essential character of these early relics, and also of later sculptures, does not decrease if such traits can be shown. Not that they occur matters, but the connection in which they occur. The study of form and the study of motifs are two different subjects, and the latter has nothing to do with art. (See, however, C. F. Fabri, ‘Mesopotamian and Early Indian Art Comparisons,’ *Études d’ Orientalisme*, Vol. I, 1932, p. 204.)