Statement I : Sculptures of the Gandhara School stylistically are typically linked to the Greeco-Roman and the Parthian art of Iran. Statement II : The earliest stone Buddha images in the Swat Valley pre-dated the Kushana period which suggests that certai

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Q: 44 (CDS-I/2013)

Statement I : Sculptures of the Gandhara School stylistically are typically linked to the Greeco-Roman and the Parthian art of Iran.
Statement II : The earliest stone Buddha images in the Swat Valley pre-dated the Kushana period which suggests that certain iconographic conventions were already well-established in the pre-Kushana period,

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History

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CDS-I

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Both the statements in this question are individually true, but statement II is not the correct explanation of statement I.

Statement I is true: Sculptures of the Gandhara School, which emerged in the region of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan in the first century CE, show clear stylistic influences from Greco-Roman and Parthian art of Iran. This is thought to be due to the influence of Hellenistic culture on the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great.

Statement II is also true: The earliest stone Buddha images in the Swat Valley, located in present-day Pakistan, pre-date the Kushana period (1st to 3rd centuries CE). This suggests that certain iconographic conventions were already well-established in the pre-Kushana period.

However, statement II does not provide a correct explanation for statement I. The fact that certain iconographic conventions were already established in the pre-Kushana period does not necessarily explain why the Gandhara School sculptures show stylistic similarities to Greco-Roman and Parthian art.