A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c12.1

c12.1

THE displacement of the Arsacidon by the Sassanian dynasty of Persia in A. D. 226, the approximately simultaneous downfall of the Āndhra kings who had ruled the Deccan for four-and-a-half centuries, and the disappearance of the Kushān or Indo-Scythian sovereigns of Northern India about the same time, unquestionably must have resulted in violent political and social disturbances on Indian soil during the third century. But hardly any record, archaeological or literary, has survived of that stormy interlude.