The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c13.s2.9
The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c13.s2.9
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In fig. 79, which comes from the Dharmarājikā Stūpa at Taxila, Indian influence is more pronounced. This, also, is a fragmentary jamb, and made of chloritized micaceous schist. As in the preceding example, the elaborate mouldings enriching the surface and the Corinthian pilasters and cornices framing the panels are indisputably Greek, but the vertical line of superposed panels is a familiar motif of Early Indian art (cf. figs. 9 above and 149 below) which has persisted down to the present day. And the pairs of figures in each of the panels are also characteristically Indian and attired in Indian costumes (cf. Taxila, vol. II, p. 704, no. 23).