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@article{194540,
        author = {Dr. V. Dilip Kumar and Dr. R. Seshagiri Rao},
        title = {Elements in Early Buddhist Art},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {10},
        pages = {5164-5169},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=194540},
        abstract = {The history of Indian art is an interdisciplinary combining the study of art historical and social historical research of the concerned period. Buddhist art is divided into Gandhara, Madhura and Andhra (Amaravati) schools, based on their characteristic features. It is natural that Pataliputra became an art centre during the times of Asoka. Similarly Mathura, on the western flanks of Uttar Pradesh became an important centre of art, imbibing in itself a favour of native Indian tradition. The region around Takshasila, under the various rulers of Greek origin became an affluent centre of art, ethnically close to the Greeko-Roman art, but a little away from the native Indian art tradition. In the post Mauryan period, the centre of art shifted from the Ganga valley to western Deccan, where it found expression in Rock-cut art forms. The case of Barhut could be studied as an expression of the Sunga art. In the far south, Amaravati developed itself into an art centre under the influence of Mauryan and Sunga art initially, but patronized by local rulers, artisans, lay-worshippers etc.},
        keywords = {Buddhist Art, Gandhra, Mathura and Amaravati},
        month = {March},
        }