A History of Agriculture in India v1.c35.s3.1

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If the degree of development of a culture is judged by the aesthetic level of the people, we can safely say that the Hindu culture reached its hey-day in the Gupta age. It is rightly called the Golden Age of India. The art of sculpture and Sanskrit literature reached high level of development. During the Gupta period, the Buddha image reached its perfection at Mathura and Sarnath, and people could see and feel the Divine in human form. The elegant Greek drapery was combined with the spiritual calm of India and a unique synthesis of the West and East was achieved. It also indicates that it was a period of tolerance and of coexistence between Buddhism and Hinduism.