286 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1912.) 
by some trees with large leaves ig ag the Palm Acanthus. 
Anderson’s Catalogue, part I, 
Scenes representing Pacchanalias orgies are by no means 
uncommon in the Gandhara School. Several specimens with 
undraped or half-draped figures of revellers have been por- 
trayed in M. Foucher’s well-known work on the Graeco- 
Buddhist Art of Gandhara (L’Art gréco-boudhique du 
Gandhara, Figs. 127-130). It is quite possible that the gold 
ornament represents the pure classical idea with naked forms, 
the perfection of which the ancients always extol, while the 
alto-relievos represent the Indian adaptations of the same 
subject, the differentia being the close-fitting tunics of the 
females and the slight clothing of the males. The presence of 
children cannot as yet be accounted for, ‘but possibly they 
represent cupids (Sanskrit Kama), or Erotes 
The ornament has been-presented to the Government of 
SS See 
