A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c10.s2.62

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A striking, and at present unique, illustration of the progressive Indianization of the foreign types is afforded by the recent discovery, near Shabkadar on the Momand frontier, of a standing headless female figure, with four arms, executed more or less in Gandhāra style, with drapery described by Dr. Spooner as being especially Greek in character. The upper arms have been lost; the two lower ones hold respectively a spear and a wheel (Fig. 78).³ The drapery seems to me to be treated in an extremely formal manner, and I think the work is of late date.