[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c11.s2.73 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s2.73 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s2.73 - **Language:** English ### [c11.s2.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11.s2.73) A finely executed bas-relief, which once decorated a doorway and exhibits artistic lotus and vine patterns, besides a picture of an elephant worshipping a \*stūpa\*, is quite in the Mathurā style, and may be assigned with some confidence to the first century of the Christian era.¹ The style of the Sārnāth works is so closely related to that of Mathurā that illustrations may be dispensed with. - [Previous: c11.s2.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11.s2.72) - [Next: c11.s2.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11.s2.74) - [Up: c11.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11.s2) ## Cites (1) - [Sārnāth](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.sarnath) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11.s2.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c11.s2.73) · Pramāṇa