The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.102

c28.102

The celebrated Gandhāra sculptures, found abundantly in the Peshāwar district and neighbouring regions, the ancient Gandhāra, of which many excellent examples date from the time of Kanishka and his proximate successors, give vivid expression in classical forms of considerable artistic merit to this modified Buddhism, a religion with a complicated mythology and well-filled pantheon.⁴ The florid Corinthian capitals and many other characteristic features of the style prove that the Gandhāra school was merely a branch of the cosmopolitan Graeco-Roman art of the early empire. The most competent critics are now generally agreed that the school reached its highest point of development early in the second century of the Christian era.¹