A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c12.s1.24

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The vigorous, and at the same time refined, sculpture adorning the ruins of a Buddhist temple at Gaṛhwā, twenty-five miles south-west of Allahabad, is illustrated by Figs. 114 and 115, giving back and side views of one pillar. The panels on the front (Fig. 114) are arranged according to the ancient Indian fashion, and the style is related to the art of Sāñchī and Bharhut much more closely than to mediaeval art. There is no trace whatever of Gandhāran influence. The figures are well drawn, and modelled on purely naturalistic principles.