A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s3.18

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The pilaster shown in Fig. 104 is another of the recent discoveries. It exhibits the old worship of symbols combined with the seated image of Buddha, as in the slab already described. Buddha, who has both shoulders covered, is seated in the *yogī* posture, which, as we have seen (*ante*, Fig. 93), was already adopted at Mathurā at about the same date, probably not later than the middle of the second century after Christ. The four-petalled flower often occurs in Gandhāran art, and in Khotan, and is still a traditional pattern in Western Tibet. The horse's head is good. I cannot identify the legend.