A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s1.9

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Far away to the east of south the ruins of a vanished Buddhist *stūpa* at Amarāvatī (16° 35′ N., 80° 24′ E.) have furnished a multitude of marble sculptures in relief, certainly assignable to the Kushān age, and of such excellence that competent critics have held them to mark the culminating point of Indian art. Their style connects them in certain respects with both Mathurā and Gandhāra. While Indian elements predominate, traces of Hellenistic or Western Asiatic influence may be recognized without difficulty.