The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . On the top a great many fragments ofsculptures were lying about on the surface of theground—most of them greatly mutilated, for it is laiddown in the Koran that it is impious to make anygraven image, and a true believer will always breakone whenever he comes across it. Most of thefigures are representations of Buddha, but I pickedup a little statue of an orator, of which this is thephotograph, which is of much historical interest. It is known that after the conquests of Alexanderthere was a considerable amount of inter
The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . On the top a great many fragments ofsculptures were lying about on the surface of theground—most of them greatly mutilated, for it is laiddown in the Koran that it is impious to make anygraven image, and a true believer will always breakone whenever he comes across it. Most of thefigures are representations of Buddha, but I pickedup a little statue of an orator, of which this is thephotograph, which is of much historical interest. It is known that after the conquests of Alexanderthere was a considerable amount of intercourse be-tween Greece and Hindostan. The Hindus seemto have fully appreciated the beauty of Greek art,and Philostratus mentions that they even hadstatues made by Greek artists or from Greek fragment, damaged as it is, fully bears out u 2 292 THE CHITRAL CAMPAIGN this statement, for it is so Yike as to be almost acopy of the famous statue of Demosthenes atAthens. Demosthenes and Alexander were contem-poraries ; does it not seem therefore that the man who. SCLLPTLKE FUUND AT RAN1i; OF BUDDHA FOUiND AT TAKHT-I-IiAGH. made this statue in Ranlghat must have seen thestatue of Demosthenes in Athens, have marchedwith Alexander across Persia, and have remainedbehind with others when Alexander went down the REMAINS 293 Indus ?—for we know that Alexander was in thehabit of planting colonies in the countries he in-vaded—or he may have fallen in love with thedaughter of the Buddhist priest, and have said like
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