The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c9.10
The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c9.10
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c9.10
The renaissance of Hellenistic art under the Parthians played such a momentous part in the evolution of the Gandhāra School that we shall have to return to the subject again in the next chapter and discuss it in greater detail. Meanwhile there remains to be noticed a number of other pieces of Gandhāran sculpture in the late Śaka style as well as two statues of local manufacture dating from the opening years of the Christian era. All the Gandhāran pieces are made of the micaceous or chloritic micaceous stone found West of the Indus; the two local statues of the Tarakī sandstone quarried in the neighbourhood of Taxila.