History of Indian and Indonesian Art

The work of this organisation in the time of Cunnigham and in more recent years under the guidance of Sir John Marshall provides in the Memoirs and Reports an indispensible source of information of which the recent sensational discoveries in Sind are only the latest example. [...] Indeed if we recognize in the Dravidians a southern race and in the Aryans a northern it may well be argued that the victory of kingly over tribal organisations the gradual reception into orthodox religion of the phallus cult and mothegoddesses and the shift from abstract symbolism to anthrpomorphic iconography in the period of theistic and bhakti development mark a final victory of the [...] Against this view are the facts that iron is not mentioned in the early Vedic literature and that the Hittites were using iron already about I50o B. C. According to Sayce the Khalybes who were neighbours of the Hittites and perhaps of the same race had the reputation of being the discoverers of steel; in any case they were its transmitters to the Greeks 2. The existence in India of Mulicla la [...] Stone begins to come into use both in architecture and for sculpture in relief and in the round the special characteristic of the Agokan work being the fine finish and polish of the surface conspicuous even in the case of the excavated monastic halls'. [...] Of the numerous extant examples the finest is that of Sarnith erected on the traditional site of the First Turning of the Wheel of the Law (fig.