The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c15.9

c15.9

The second example of this particular style (fig. 90) is a fragment of chloritized micaceous schist, which was found at Loriyān Tangai and is now in the Calcutta Museum. I have included it here because it furnishes another illustration of the ornamental scarf alluded to above, and also shows the effect which the slanting eyes were beginning to have on the more normal modelling of that feature. Of what scene this small fragment formed a part is questionable, but perhaps a clue may be given by the *deva* at the back with two fingers to his lips as if in the act of whistling. A similar figure, making the same gesture of rejoicing, occurs in the Birth scene illustrated in *A.G.-B.G.* vol. I, fig. 154, p. 306. For the exaggerated size of the figures in the back row compare figs. 87 above and 95 below.¹