The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c15.13

c15.13

Of the sculptures of this period which I have selected for illustration, one of the earliest is fig. 92—a small relief of chloritic schist, now in the British Museum, which is alleged to have come from Takht-i-Bahī. The scene portrayed is the ‘Sleep of the women’. In the centre is the princess