Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c28.s8.t3.3
Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c28.s8.t3.3
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v1.c28.s8.t3.3
During the first half of the eighth century, Nālandā continued to influence the rest of the country, but its real glory as far as bronze/brass sculpture is concerned, arose only during the later half. Lāmā Tārānātha, the historian of Tibetan Buddhism recorded (Chattopadhyaya, 1970) that a new school of Pāla art, founded during the reigns of Dharmapāla (AD 783-818) and Devapāla (AD 818-58), gradually spread to Kashmir, Nepal and Tibet. He wrote: