The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c12.4
The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c12.4
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c12.4
I have labelled this group of sculptures the 'Mardān' group for no other reason than that they happened to be preserved in that place, before being transferred to the Peshāwar Museum where they are now. Of their original provenance no reliable record seems to have been kept. From inquiries I made on the spot in 1903 I concluded that the majority had come from Swāt, but there were some that had come from other sites, and it would, therefore, be misleading to call it the Swāt group.