The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c33.22

c33.22

This picture, in addition to its interest as a contemporary record of unusual political relations between India and Persia, is of the highest value as a landmark in the history of art. It not only fixes the date of some of the most important paintings at Ajaṇṭā, and so establishes a standard by which the date of others can be judged; but also suggests the possibility that the Ajaṇṭā school of pictorial art may have been derived directly from Persia, and ultimately from Greece.³