Buddha and the gospel of Buddhism . and the Buddha figure is introducedin narrative sculpture. It is very probable that examples of these earliestBuddhist primitives are no longer extant, but evenif that be so, the splendid and monumental figuresof Anuradhapura and Amaravati of perhaps the secondcentury , still reflect almost the full force of primitiveinspiration. Of these figures there is none finer—and perhaps nothing finer in the whole range of Buddhistart—than the colossal figure at Anuradhapura illus-trated in Plate K. With this figure are to be associateda standing image of Buddha (
Buddha and the gospel of Buddhism . and the Buddha figure is introducedin narrative sculpture. It is very probable that examples of these earliestBuddhist primitives are no longer extant, but evenif that be so, the splendid and monumental figuresof Anuradhapura and Amaravati of perhaps the secondcentury , still reflect almost the full force of primitiveinspiration. Of these figures there is none finer—and perhaps nothing finer in the whole range of Buddhistart—than the colossal figure at Anuradhapura illus-trated in Plate K. With this figure are to be associateda standing image of Buddha (Plate E) and one ofa Bodhisattva, and these again are closely related to 1 As pointed out by M. Foucher, the image on the Kanishka reliquaryindicates an already stereotyped art . . and this votive documentsuffices to throw back by at least a century the creation of the plastic typeof the Blessed One, and thus to take us back to the first century beforeour era.—BOrigine grecque de P Image du Bouddha^ Paris, 1913, p. 31. 328. riEffl^ Sw -s ^
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