[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.marshall-1960) › c4.2 # The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c4.2 The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c4.2 - **Language:** English ### [c4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.marshall-1960.c4.2) Secondly, my discoveries showed that in the late Śaka period, to which the oldest examples of Buddhist carvings are referable, the old Hellenistic art in Gandhāra had sunk to a lamentably low level, though better work appears to have been done by sculptors of the Early Indian School imported from down country. - [Previous: c4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.marshall-1960.c4.1) - [Next: c4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.marshall-1960.c4.3) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.marshall-1960.c4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.marshall-1960.c4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.marshall-1960.c4.2) · Pramāṇa