A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c17.38

c17.38

But the later forms of the motive are clearly of foreign origin, being based on the garland carried by *amorini*, Erōtes, or cupids, which was constantly used in the later Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman art. In Gandhāra an imbricated roll, quite in the Graeco-Roman fashion, carried by boys, equivalent to cupids or Erōtes, is substituted for the Indian lotus stem. At Mathurā and Sārnāth we find a smooth roll carried by men, not boys (Plate LXXXVII, Fig. C), and at Amarāvatī a bulky tinsel roll with Indian decoration, also carried by men (*ante*, Fig. 103).²