Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c15.190

c15.190

The later examples of this type of Folk-Art are seen in the Bodhisattva images which are supposed to be the works of the Mathurā School of Art. The colossal Bodhisattva image found at Sarnath bears an inscription which assigns it to the year 3 of Kanishka and describes it as a gift of Bhikshu Bala of Mathurā. Thus the Bodhisattva images were the continuations of the Yaksha images in a different religious reference.