A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s2.95

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At Jaggayapeta, or Betavolu, in the same District, a little has been saved from the wreck of another richly adorned *stūpa*, dating from either the later Maurya or the Sunga period. The original construction of the Amarāvatī *stūpa* goes back to the same times, and a few examples of the ancient sculptures survive, obviously related to the art of Bharhut and the earliest cave-temples of the west, and in some cases showing affinity with that of Mathurā. The best is the slab from Amarāvatī, of uncertain date, representing a man with his hand on the head of a boy (Fig. 53), which is good work.