A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c10.s1.11
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c10.s1.11
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¹ Certain facts may be brought together which connect the sculptures at several localities with the Kushān kings: (1) coins of Kanishka in foundation deposit of Sanghāo monastery (Cole, *Second Report*, p. cxx); (2) coin of Huvishka with a panel of best style at Takht-i-Bahāī (*J. R. A. S.*, 1899, p. 422); (3) seven coins of Vāsudeva with Jamālgarai sculptures (Cunningham, *Reports*, v. 194); (4) coin of Huvishka in good condition at Ahīnposh *stūpa*, along with coins of Sabina, &c. (*Proc. A. S. B.*, 1879, p. 209); (5) some of the Mathurā sculptures in Gandhāra style bear Kushān inscriptions. For reasons to be stated in the next chapter, I now take the most probable date of the accession of Kanishka to be A. D. 78.