The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c13.s1.6

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Fig. 70, representing the Worship of the Three Jewels, or, possibly, the First Sermon, is a very dull and uninspired composition compared with fig. 59. The design of the triratna and the grouping of the adoring monks exhibit none of the imagination or inventive effort visible in the Loriyān Tangai fragment. Indeed, the only feature in which this relief shows to advantage is the treatment of the monks’ robes, which, though rough and summary, shows a more realistic and correct sense for plastic form.