The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c9.18
The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c9.18
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The following example (fig. 24), which is now in the British Museum, came in all probability from the Dharmarājikā, where also the head of an almost identical bracket was found. Both are made of a talcose schist of a peculiarly silky texture. The *deva* is wearing a *dhoti*, scarf and turban, heavy ear-rings, short necklace, armlets and bangles. As a whole, the bracket is well designed and the modelling of the face is unusually good, but the treatment of the shawl and *dhoti* is still very perfunctory. For a similar bracket from the Dharmarājikā see *Taxila*, pl. 226, no. 167.