Historicity

The Mathura school of sculptural art, which had its origin in the centuries immediately before the commencement of the Christian Era, was greatly stimulated in the Kushana age, which was marked by a cultural acculturation and material prosperity. The art

• Mathura
• Kushana
• Krishna
• Yaksa
• Buddhist
• Gandhara

1. Stanislaw J. Czuma, Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India,. (Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1985), pp.1-46.
2. V.S.Agrawala, Handbook of the Sculptures in the Curzon Museum of Archaeology –Muttra, (Allahabad, 1939).
3. R.C. Sharma, Buddhist Art of Mathura, (Agam kala Prakashan, 1984).
4. N.P.Joshi, Mathura Sculpture, (Merhra Offset Press, Agra, 1966), pp.10-71.
5. Susan L.Huntington, The Art of Ancient Asia (weather Hill, New-York Tokyo, 1985), pp.60-61, 122-24, 155-162.