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¹ Scholars are practically unanimous in assuming that the Græco-Buddhist art of Gandhāra began shortly before the birth of Christ, and attained its perfection in the second century A.D., especially during the reign of Kaniṣka. See G. Bühler in Anzeiger der Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Phil.—hist. Kl., 1896, p. 66 f.; A. Grünwedel, Buddhistische Kunst in Indien, Berlin 1900, p. 81; A. Foucher, L’art gréco-bouddhique du Gandhāra, I, Paris 1905, p. 40 ff.; II, 1918, pp. 401 ff., 486 ff.; V. A. Smith, Early History, pp. 255 ff., 252; History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, Oxford 1911, p. 99 (“It is quite safe to affirm that the works of good quality belong to the first three centuries of the Christian era”); L. A. Waddell in JRAS, 1914, p. 140 f.; Sir J. H. Marshall in JRAS 1909, 1056 ff.; Cambridge History, I, 1922, p. 648.