A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s4.19

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inferior style of the Peshāwar reliquary, it cannot be that advanced by the Director-General of Archaeology in India. It may simply be that Kanishka did not command the services of any artist good at repoussé work. The geese in low relief are not bad. The date of the work may be taken as A. D. 100 in round numbers. The walls of the *stūpa* were decorated with rows of Buddha-figures in relief, separated by *Corinthian* pillars in stucco, a clear proof that the building dates from the time of the Roman Empire. The earlier Bīmarān *stūpa* had not Corinthian pillars.