[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) › c33.22 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c33.22 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c33.22 - **Language:** English ### [c33.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.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 - [Previous: c33.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c33.21) - [Next: c33.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c33.23) - [Up: c33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c33) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c33.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c33.22) · Pramāṇa