The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c33.41

v1.c33.41

The composition of these sculptures is strangely bizarre and fanciful, and their style, generally, is not of a high order; but it is easy to perceive from the technique of the relief work, from the freedom of the composition and of the individual poses, as well as from the treatment of the ornaments, that they are to be classed among the later efforts of the Early School, not among its primitive productions. Their date certainly cannot be much earlier than the middle of the last century before the Christian era.