The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c4.7
The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c4.7
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With these leading facts established, the story of the School's development automatically resolved itself into three main chapters: its infancy under the Śakas; its childhood and early adolescence under the Parthians; and its later adolescence and maturity under the Kushāns. And when to this external evidence was further added the internal evidence of the sculptures themselves, the order of their sequence and the changing character of their successive styles at once became apparent.