A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s1.4
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s1.4
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Figs. 3 and 4, which seem to be authentic, recognizable portraits of the great Kanishka (? a. d. 78 to 123), are curiously superior in design and execution to the contemporary effigy on the Peshāwar reliquary (*post*, p. 358). Figs. 5 and 6 similarly give distinctive portraits of Huvishka, the second successor, and probably son of Kanishka. The later Kushān coinage is barbarous or semi-barbarous.