Archaeological Survey of India A Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Museum Part I Early Indian Schools

It deals with the Matirya and Sunga sculptures exhibited its the Entrance Hall the Bharhut Room the Western Corridor of the Ground Floor and in a show-case of the Long Gallery of the Museum. [...] The art which the sculptures represent has thus to be regarded as Perso-Hellenic in origin ; and according to Marshall the columns were the handiwork of Bactrian artists.' During the next century the same Bactrian School was responsible for the realistic portr.aits and figures of kings and divinities A the Indo-fgreek coins although the style was not adopted by the contemporary Indian Schools. [...] The frieze thus conveys the idea of a cotinuous movement the progress of the Wheel of Law (Dharinachara) and the entire composition as conceived here is unsurpassed in the whole range of Indian art. [...] The donors of the Stupa of Bharhut like those of the Safichi Stfipas include the laity as well as the monks and nuns forming the Buddhist confederation. [...] The quail induced the crow to pick out the eyes of the elephant an the flyto drop eggs in the sockets ; and misled by the croaking of the frog the blind elephant went up the precipice of a mountain from where he slipped down and died.