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A Guide to the Scultptures in the Indian Museum Part II The Graeco-Buddhist School of Gandhara

1937

Archceotogical Survey of India A Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Museum PART II The Graeco -Buddhist School of Gandhara N. C. MajumdarA Guide to the Sculptures in the Indian Museum The Grco-Buddhist Scboot df GandlaarsaPro ut is pie e ARCIVEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA A GUIDE TO THE SCULPTURES IN THE INDIAN MUSEUM PART II The Grwco-Buddhist School of BY N. G. MAJUMDAR F.R.A.S. [...] The Vone was quarried from the hills of Swat and Buner to the north of the Peshawar District representing the ancient. [...] and the Indian king Chandragupta Maurya concluded about 305 B. C. fixed the Hindukush as the ' limit of the Greek kingdom of Syria and brought Gat -rt 1Nlithirr the dominions of the Maurya Temp. The province so remained up to the time of his andson Altka in whose inscriptions it figures as a fron.er territory. [...] In the substitution of the Corinthian for the I ic and in the universal use of the former we see a IT ess that is in evidence also in Romanbaschitectuf as is the temple of Apollo at Pompeii restored in e first century A. D. and in the temples of the age o Atigustus generally. [...].001' The classical influences tiliZt largely moulded the Buddhist art of Gandhara in its later phases came fro the eastern borders of the Roman Fimpire as a tieIt of the brisk intercourse established between ome Western Asia and India in the 1st century A. U. The first stream of influence might have come from Antioch the chief Hellenistic city of Syria during the reign of.the SeleLid kings
anthropology archaeology
Pages
161
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142956
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-ix N.G. Majumdar view
Introductory
1-28 unknown view
I. The JĀtakas
29-36 unknown view
II. Scenes from the Life of the Buddh
37-75 unknown view
III. The Buddhas
76-86 unknown view
IV. The Bodhisattvas
87-97 unknown view
V. HĀritĪ and PĀŇchika
98-101 unknown view
VI. Miscellaneous
102-117 unknown view
Short Bibliography
118-118 unknown view
Numerical Index
119-132 unknown view
Index
133-137 unknown view
Backmatter
i-xv unknown view

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