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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 2, p. xi.

TABLE OF CONTENTS xi PAGE Implement factories . . . 93 ' Cinder-mounds' . 94 'Cup-marks' . . . . . . . 94 Ruddle drawings . . . . 94 Tombs . . . . . . . . . . 95 Adichanallar . . . . . . . 97 Copper implements 97 Iron . . . . . . . . 98 Selected references . . . . . . . . 99 CHAPTER III ARCHAEOLOGY OF HISTORICAL PERIOD Scope of the chapter . . . . . . . Transition from prehistoric times . . . . . The earliest Indian building . . . . . . State of civilization 450 B.C. . . . . 02 Wooden architecture . . . . . . I03 Early period of Indian art, 250 B.c. to A.D. 50 Io03 Distribution of remains of early period . . . 04 Evolution of the st a . . . . . . I04 Stone railings . . . . . . Io4 Hellenistic and Persian influence Io5. . . . Bharhut . I. . . . . . o6 S nchi . . . . . . . . . 8 Monolithic pillars of Asoka o. . . . . Sculpture in the round . . . . . . O9 MathurA . . . . . . . . o Jain s/tpas . . . . . . . . IIo Decoration of sfPlpas . . . . . . Sculpture in the early caves . . . . . The second or Kushln period . . . . . . 2 History . . . . . . . . I12 Influence of Roman taste . . . . . II2 Two principal schools of sculpture . II3 Abundance of Gandhara sculptures . II3 General description of Gandhara sculptures . . II4 The sculptures illustrate the Newer Buddhism . II4 Chronology of the Gandhara school . . . . I5 Amaravati . . . . . . II5 The Ajantu paintings . . . . . . I7 Technical execution. . . . . . . I7 Age of the paintings . . . . II8