1889.] 



on the Civilization of Ancient India. 



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that of the western world, but the evidence does not lie upon the surface. 

 Iu the remains of the buildings and sculptures of Gandhara the merest 

 tyro can perceive at a glance that the style of art is in the main Greek 

 or Roman, not Indian.* 



* The principal references to published notices of the Gandhara school of art 

 are as follows ; — 



(1) Notes on some sculptures found in the District of Peshawar. By B. C. Bayley. 

 With several rude lithographs. (Journal As. Soc, Bengal, Vol. XXI (1852), pp. 

 606—621). The sculptures described in this paper were collected at Jainalgarhi by 

 Messrs. Lumsdon and Stokes, and were destroyed by the fire at the Crystal Palace. 



(2) Indian Antiquary, (Bombay), Vol. Ill, pp. 143, 159. 



(3) History of Indian and Eastern Architecture. By James Fergnsson. 



(4) Reports of the Archaiological Survey of India, Vol. V. By Sir A. Cunning- 

 ham. Volume II of the same series gives information concerning Taxila. See also 

 Vol. XIV, p. 31, PI. XIV. 



(5) Descriptive List of the Principal Buddhist Sculptures in the Lahore Museum, 

 p. 11. This list, kindly supplied to me by the Curator, contains brief particulars 

 of 95 specimens, of which 32 are marked with an asterisk, as being either " iu excep- 

 tionally good preservation, or interesting from their subjects." The list is signed by 

 Sir A. Cunningham, bat is not dated. Two specimens are noted as coming from 

 Sahri Bahlol, and one is stated to have been obtained in the fortress of Ranigat, 

 but no other indication is given of the localities from which the sculptures woro 

 obtained. 



I have not been able to procure a " Memorandum by Mr. Baden-Powell on the 

 sculptures in the Lahore Museum," which is roforred to by Sir A. Cunningham, 

 Archceol. Rep., Vol. V, p. 55, note 1. 



(6) Catalogue and Handbook of the Archaiological Collections in the Indian 

 Museum. By John Anderson, M. D., F. R. S., oto. Part I, Calcutta, 18S3. 201 

 Indo-Hellenic objects aro described, viz., 177 arrangod under the heading Gandhara, 

 18 under Peshawar, two under Mathnra., and one each under Hazara, Kabul, miscel- 

 laneous, and Bihar. 



(7) Memorandum on Ancient Monuments in Eusufzai (sic). By Major Colo ; 

 being part of the Second Report of the Curator of Ancient Monuments in India, pp. 

 CXIV, segq. This document was separately reprinted at the Government Central 

 Branch Press, Simla, 1883. It is illustrated by rough lithographic plates, compris- 

 ing all the subjects subsequently treated by the heliogravure process, as well as by a 

 map of the Yiisufzai country, and eleven other plans and sketches. 



(8) Preservation of National Monuments, India, Qrmco-Buddliist Sculptures from 

 Yiisufzai. By Major H. H. Cole, R. B. Published by order of the Governor- 

 General iu Council for the office of Curator of Ancient Monuments in India. Large 

 folio, p. 7, with 30 very fino heliogravure plates, 1885. 



(9) The Buddhist Stiipas of Amardvati and Jaggayapeta. By James Burgess, 

 C. I. E., etc , Archasological Survey of Southern India. Triibner, London, 1887. 

 This work does not describe the sculptures, but some good specimens of them are 

 figured in woodcuts Nos. 1, 4, 11, 14, 21, 23, 24, and 26, which aro copied from the 

 illustrated edition of Sir E. Arnold's Light of Asia. 



(10) Alt- und Neu-Indischti K v mt tg tgeMtStode aus Professor Leiluers jiingstvr 



