The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c9.183.3

v1.c9.183.3

Outlines of human forms must be, from their nature, similar wherever produced, but “even as in music the same tune assumes different styles under different treatment, and experts can easily make out, not only such styles, but their imitations”, [72] so in the plastic art there are styles and their imitations which are determinable; but as yet no one has noticed any unmistakable and certain trace of a Greek or Bactrian style or imitation of it in Indian sculptures. The little that has been noticed in the specimens above named are peculiar to them, and them only, and not to be found in the bulk of the sculptures of this country, which have their own special peculiarities,—which mark them as strictly indigenous, and perfectly independent of foreign art. Hence it is, I believe, that Mr.