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P.UDDTTfST ATICTTITEOTrRK.
Book i.
the 4th or 5th century, which is the time at which the style seems to
have reached its highest point of elaboration, in India at least.
17. Representation of a Tojw from I lie Kail at Amravati. (From a bas-relief in 1 lie India Museum.)
Gandhaba Topes,
The extreme paucity of examples retaining their architectural
form, in the valley of the Ganges, is, to some extent, compensated for
by the existence of a very extensive range of examples in Afghanistan
and the western Punjab. In his memoir of these topes, pnhlished
by Professor Wilson, in his ' Ariana Antiqua,1 Mr. Masson enumerates
and describes, in more or less detail, some sixty examples, or almost
exactly the same number which General Cunningham described as
existing at Bhilsa. In this instance, however, they extend over a
range of 200 miles, from Cabal to the Indus, instead of only l(i or
P.UDDTTfST ATICTTITEOTrRK.
Book i.
the 4th or 5th century, which is the time at which the style seems to
have reached its highest point of elaboration, in India at least.
17. Representation of a Tojw from I lie Kail at Amravati. (From a bas-relief in 1 lie India Museum.)
Gandhaba Topes,
The extreme paucity of examples retaining their architectural
form, in the valley of the Ganges, is, to some extent, compensated for
by the existence of a very extensive range of examples in Afghanistan
and the western Punjab. In his memoir of these topes, pnhlished
by Professor Wilson, in his ' Ariana Antiqua,1 Mr. Masson enumerates
and describes, in more or less detail, some sixty examples, or almost
exactly the same number which General Cunningham described as
existing at Bhilsa. In this instance, however, they extend over a
range of 200 miles, from Cabal to the Indus, instead of only l(i or