History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c35.s1.41

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The tables represented in the Gandhara sculptures and the murals of Ajanta show foreign impact. The X-shaped table revealed unmistakable Greek origin. Evidently the Greeks in turn borrowed such tables from the Egyptians. Similarly, the table in the form of tripod sculptured at Gandhara may represent Greek ornamental table dephica. In all probability, the present table could have been developed from the Greek's costly table monopoded or orbes which rested on one leg with a wooden top cut out of a single leg in the whole of the diameter (Seyfert, 1891, p. 610 a).