A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s8.5
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s8.5
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¹ Act iv, Ryder's transl. (Harvard Or. Series), p. 67. Much earlier is the record at Sānchī of *circa* 200 to 150 B.C., which informs us that one of the piers of the southern gate was not only dedicated, but executed by the ivory carvers of Bhilsā. 'The workers in ivory of Vedisa have done the carving' (**वेदिसकेहि दंतकारेहि रूपकम्मं कतं**). This implies that even at a date so early the carvers of ivory were organized as a guild (*śreṇī*) (*Ep. Ind.*, ii, pp. 92, 378; Tope I, inscr. No. 200 = C. 189). The record further shows that workers in ivory were prepared to carve in stone.