[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c17.38 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c17.38 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c17.38 - **Language:** English ### [c17.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.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 - [Previous: c17.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.37) - [Next: c17.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.39) - [Up: c17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17) ## Cites (1) - [Sārnāth](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.sarnath) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c17.38) · Pramāṇa