By Sonya Rhie Quintanilla
This quantity presents the 1st finished research and chronology of the earliest recognized stone sculptures from the north Indian urban of Mathura, courting ahead of the well-known Kushan interval. It contains quite a few new attributions of gadgets dependent totally on epigraphic and visible research. The sculptures as a result of those pre-Kushan sessions display new facts for the explanations in the back of the emergence of the anthropomorphic photo of the Buddha at Mathura, the predominance of a heterodox sect of Jainism, and the proliferation of cults of nature divinities. This e-book presents a wealth of reference fabric precious for historians of early Indian paintings, faith, and epigraphy. The e-book is illustrated with over 300 photos, and it comprises epigraphic appendices with whole transcriptions and up to date translations.
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I contend that it may postdate his reign slightly, as will be argued below. 19 See, for example, the pillars of the gateways that are straight, faceted, and topped with a bell-shaped lotus capital and a twisted rope molding, a modification of the A≤okan type of pillars from the Maurya period (L. Bachhofer, Early Indian Sculpture, Pls. 15, 16, and 17). 20 Heliodoros was an envoy of the Indo-Greek King Antialcidas, who reigned between ca. 130 and 100 BCE. chapter one 6 The similarity between the bas relief representation of the lion pillar from Ka«kàlì-ˇìlà and the uninscribed Mauryan pillar from Vai≤àlì (Fig.
Fig. 300. Detail of Fig. 296. Photo: American Institute of Indian Studies. Fig. 301. Detail of Fig. 296. Photo: American Institute of Indian Studies. Fig. 302. Buddhist pedestal with Indra and Brahmà, from Mathura, Uttar Pradesh; ca. 50–100 CE. Buff sandstone; H. 28" × W. 82 cm). 18. Photo: S. R. Quintanilla. Fig. 303. Harvard Buddha triad, from Mathura, Uttar Pradesh; ca. 75–100 CE. Spotted red sandstone; H. 7" × W. 5 cm). Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Ernst B. 51. Photo: S. R. Quintanilla.
Brahmin hermit instructing disciples, from Bharhut, Madhya Pradesh; ca. 150 BCE. Plum sandstone. Indian Museum, Calcutta. Photo: From A. K. Coomaraswamy, La Sculpture de Bharhut, Fig. 172. Fig. 264. Vasu doorjamb, found in the cantonment, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh; ca. 15 CE. Red sandstone; H. 8' 5" × W. 1' 4" × D. 32 cm). 367. Photo: American Institute of Indian Studies. Fig. 265. 27 km) west of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh; ca. 15 CE. Red sandstone; H. 8½' × W. 1' (265 × 30 cm). 526. Photo: American Institute of Indian Studies.