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Amaravati art.
Preserved at Musee
Guimet

Sanchi Stupa from Eastern gate

Interiors of Stupa 1

Torana /

Carved decoration of the

Northern gateway to the
Great Stupa of Sanchi.


Gold Achaemenid Lion
(Persian treasures)

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Babylonian . Tree of Life, UR, 1000 BC.

Mayan Tablet of the Foliated Tree of Life. Temple of the Foliated

Cross, Palenque, Mexico. 698 A.D.

Aesculapius
Roman art

Hermes
Marble, Roman copy

Yashas on pillar of
western gateway,
Sanchi


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Bedse Caves, plan.



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Persian Column, Perspolis, iran

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Gandhra

Zeus and Demeter

or
Pancila and Hariti.

British Museum.

India,
Gandhara period, 3rd century

The Greek god Atlas, supporting a Buddhist monument,

Hadda, Afghanistan.

Wine-drinking and music, 1st-2nd century CE.

An Indo-Corinthian capital with the Buddha at

corinthian capital

Apollo

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Bodhisattva
Gandhara

STUPA
1st Century AD.
Gandhra

Pictures of PakistanIslamabad - Taxila

archeological site, Gandhara
Buddhist era, stupa at the
museum

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Yaksha
Sandstone.
ca. 200 B.C. H. 8 ft, 7.5 in.

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Buddha seated on lion

throne, from Mathura,
India, second century
CE. Red sandstone, 2 3
1/2 high.
Archaeological
Museum, Muttra.

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The Bodhisattva
Maitreya (water bottle
on left thigh), art of
Mathura, 2nd century
AD.

Standing image of Maitreya,

Ahicchatra, National Museum of
India, New Delhi,
H. 28".

mathura school of artKushanas period

Yakshini from Mathura Jain Temple, 2nd

Century

Vishnu as the Boar Avatar

Uttar Pradesh, Mathura; 3rd
century
sandstone

Lingam Kushan period (Mathura Museum)


(Amravati art)
7-10

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Amaravati buddha head

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The Buddha preaching, Nagarjunakonda, 3rd or 4th century A.D.

Worship of the Buddha, Amaravati, carved out of limestone.

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Yakshini 3rd
century B.C. Patna
Museum Patna

Buddha from Celebes, bronze,

Amaravati style, 3rd5th century;
in the Jakarta Museum. Height 75
cm.

Bujang Valley Museum.

Malaysia

Standing bronze Buddha image from

Dong Duon in the Amaravati style,
Saigon National Museum, Saigon,
Vietnam