A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c12.s2.24
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c12.s2.24
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have had occasion often to note the skill shown by Indian artists in modelling the flexible, feminine hands characteristic of the higher Hindu castes. The smooth, tight-fitting robe of the Buddha (Fig. 125) resembles that seen in the Sārnāth stone sculptures of the Gupta period, and I am disposed to assign the objects illustrated to either the fifth or the sixth century.¹