Essay name: Scythian Elements in early Indian Art
Author:
Swati Ray
Affiliation: University of Calcutta / Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture
This essay studies Scythian Elements in early Indian Art—a topic that has not garnered extensive scholarly attention. Although much research has focused on various aspects of Saka/Scythian culture, such as politics and numismatics, their contribution to Indian art remains underexplored. This essay delves into archaeological evidence, historical texts, and art forms from Eurasian steppes to decipher the Scythian impact.
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The learned Foreign Examiner has made an observation in the same Paragraph 4-"What is of most concern is the tendency to repeat statements from the books, often statements embodying their authors' judgements, comparisons and assessments as well as purely factual descriptions, in the very words of the originals� and in support of his observation he has cited a few cases (Page 89 Para.1, lines8- 9:89.para.1.11.2-3:61.1.lines.2-1 from bottom of para:61.bottom para.,linel from bottom of para-page 62.1.1:62.1from bottom,lines 3-2 from bottom:63.1.lines1,2 from bottom:63.2.1-2:63.para 1from bottomline 3 from bottom-64.1.3:65.1.3-6:130.2.1-4:152.2.5 from bottom-line 3 from bottom:153.1.line 4 from bottom-154.1.2:) from the thesis. It is indeed gratifying that he has himself considered such approach as "inadvertent plagiarism" in the last Paragraph of his report. What has happened actually is that in a hurry inverted commas have been left out while typing and also at the time of putting them by hand. This will be apparent from the fact that in such cases references to the works from which the passages have been quoted have been given in the footnotes. Moreover, in the Preface to the thesis (pp. iii-iv), it is also acknowledged that many of the interpretations given are based on the writings of the earlier authors and as per the suggestion of the learned examiner, changes by summing up or otherwise have been made by us also in some cases (Page 62,Para.1,lines 3-2 from bottom: Page63,Para.2,lines 1-2:Page 65,Para 1,lines 3-6:), besides putting 10 6
