A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.84

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A relief of unknown origin in the local Mathurā Museum (Fig. 51) depicts in a strangely stiff and archaic wooden style the famous visit of Indra to Buddha seated in a cave. It should be contrasted with the very different treatment of the same subject by the Gandhāra school (*post*, Fig. 60). I hesitate to assign a date to the Mathurā version. The relief seems to be a direct copy of work in wood, and may be compared with the frieze from Chambā (Chap. X, Sec. 7, *post*). Dr. Vogel regards this work as a 'clumsy imitation' of Gandhāran art. The height is 1 foot 6 inches (Mathurā Museum, No. 11, *Catalogue*, pp. 31, 130).