The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c19.23

c19.23

Palace life, see Life of pleasure Palātu-Dherī, 76 Pāñcika, 104-5 Paris, see Guimet, Musée Parthian goblet, 34, 60 Parthian head-dress, 30; see also Wreath Parthian philhellenes, xiii, 6, 19, 26 ff., 29 Peacock, 14, 91 Pedestals lion-footed, 39 as part of the scene above it, 104-5 of statues, decorated with scroll pattern, 102; with reliefs, 67, 100, 101, 103 Persepolitan pattern, 47 Persepolitan pillar, 38, 74-5 Perspective, disregard of laws of, 57, 69, 71, 75-6 Peshāwar, 72 Peshāwar Museum, 33, 35, 36, 37, 40, 59, 84, 103, 104, 107 Phyllite, 65-6, 84 Pig, 82-91 Pilaster, see Pillar Pillar Aśoka's, 3, 29 in countersunk panel, 35, 36, 56, 73 Yaksha-supported, 96 see also Corinthian, Persepolitan, Shaft Pipal, aśvattha, 10, 14, 48, 56, 58, 79 Plan, see Circular plan, Rectangular plan Ploughing Festival, 103 Pointed edges of clothes, see Scalloped edges Portrait, 29-30 Poseidon, 37, 52 Presentation of the Banyan grove, 12 of the Bride to Siddhārtha, 34 of the Four Bowls, 58, 108 of Grass by Svastika, 46, 57-8 of the Jetavana Garden, 41 of the Mango grove, 69 Promenade of the Buddha, 8, 12, 13 Prophecy of the Nāga-rāja Kālika, 57 Provincial groups or schools, 51 ff., 72 Purushapura, see Peshāwar Pushkalāvatī, see Chārsada