Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India. Excavations in Swat and Explorations in the Oxus Territories of Afghanistan. a Detailed Report of the 1938 Expedition

Buddhism had become perhaps the dominant religion in the north of India in the reign of Aioka and we have practcally no coherent archaeological record of the Greek settlements between the Indus and thOxus before the appearance of Greco-Buddhist art in the monasteries of Gandhi-0a. [...] Codrinton has pointed out the ewers and vases which are to be seen everywhere on the Ajanta frescoes are Sassanian in form and the uniform of the retainers at Ajanta is a close parallel to the costumes found on many of the Bamiyan freseces.5 The results of the four expeditions of Griinwedel and Le Coq which brought back to Berlin a splendid selection of the paintings from the cave monasterie [...] The Government of India deputed the Curator of the Peshawar Museum M. Dilawar Khan to inspect the finds of the expedition and to select in cojunction with Wright a number of pieces of sculpture as a nucleus for the Museum which the Wali of Swat proposed to set up in his palace at Saidu Sharif as well as two or three pieces for the Peshawar Museum.. [...] When the Curator had come to Barikot and the division of the finds had been made to the satisfaction of all concerned the bulk of the sculptures were taken to Peshawar and thence consigned to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. [...] In the course of their.search they had uncovered a patch about 9' long and 3' deep of the masonry facing of the square base of the stupa and part of the steps in the middle of its eastern side.