in one of their ground-breaking articles on Nepalese art within the historical context, showed an image of Visnu with two attendant figures on the grounds of Pashupatinath to be a portrait of the early 7th century Lichhavi-period monarch Visnugupta with...
For the first time an attempt is made here to draw a picture of the cultural progress made, as a whole, in the Kushan period, by utilising all available literary and archaeological data. Chapter I - The first chapter deals with the geographical features of the area over which the Yue-chi...
Images of a number of divinities were carved for the first time during the Kushan period. Gandhara, on the other hand, had once been an ancient republic in the 6th century BCE with its capital at Taxila near Ravalpindi (Pakistan). It was located in the north-western part of the sub-co...
about 40 years later. His rule was a period of retrenchment and consolidation for the Empire. In particular he devoted time and effort early in his reign to the exertion of greater control over the city of Mathura.
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kushan‐sassanian periodbuddhist monasterypottery productiontable and common waresprovenancetechnologyWe present the first full archaeometrical study of Kushan-Sassanian pottery from the Buddhist monastic complexes at Kara Tepe (Termez, Uzbekistan), recovered both in the pottery workshop and in the ...