A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c10.s3.27

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Perhaps the only places where its influence can be traced clearly are Mathurā, Amarāvatī, and Ajantā. The Buddhas on the pillars in Cave X of Ajantā (*post*, Chap. VIII, Sec. 3) are clearly related in type to Gandhāra work. Political conditions seem to have been responsible to a great extent for the failure of the art of the north-western frontier to penetrate deeply into the interior. The Kushān empire apparently broke up in the time of Vāsudeva I, the successor of Huvishka, and was followed probably by a time of unrecorded anarchy. The next empire, that of the Guptas, who completed the conquest of the Gangetic valley about the middle of the fourth century, did not include the Panjāb, and so was separated from Gandhāra by foreign territory.