[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c10.33 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.33 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.33 - **Language:** English ### [c10.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.33) ² Reference may be made here to the view put forward by K. P. Jayaswal that the Parkham statue of Mathurā represents Ajātasatru or Kunika (\*J. B. O. Res. Soc.\* v, pp. 550–51). Brindavan C. Battacharya had previously drawn attention to the identity of character of this statue and the two ‘Saiśunāka statues’, now in the Indian Museum, which K. P. Jayaswal identifies as those of Udaya and Nandivardhana (\*J. B. O. Res. Soc.\* v, pp. 402–6). K. P. Jayaswal holds that Ajātasatru died \*c.\* 518 B. C., and that the statue must date back to \*c.\* 515 B. C. The theory, if established, revolutionizes the history of Indian art and proves that the art of sculpture in stone was well matured two centuries before Asoka. V. A. Smith expressed the view that the statues in question are pre-Mauryan and executed not later than 400 B. C. (\*J. B. O. Res. Soc.\* v, pp. 512–13). See also ibid. vi, pp. 173 ff. - [Previous: c10.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.32) - [Next: c10.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.34) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.33) · Pramāṇa