A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s2.22

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The drinking Nāga is related to another fine life-size statue of a Nāga water-sprite from Chhargaon, near Mathurā, now in the Mathurā Museum, the approximate date of which is fixed by an inscription on the back, recorded in the fortieth year during the reign of Huvishka. According to the chronology provisionally adopted in this work, the statue (Fig. 84), which is 5 feet high, may be ascribed to the year A. D. 117 or 118. The modelling is good. The arrangement of the waistcloth in a twisted roll is found in other cases. The broken left hand probably held a cup.¹