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 If it be true, as seems probable, that the Parkham statue is a. contemporary portrait of King Ajâtasatru, the patron of Buddha in the sixth century, and that the Patna statues are similar portraits of his successors, Kings of Magadha. in the fifth century B. C., our ideas concerning the evolution of Indian sculpture require reconstruction. See Jayaswal, Green, Arim Sen, M. M. Haraparshad Sastri, and others in J. B. O. Res. Soc., vol. v., part iv, December, 1919. V. A. S. Feb. 1, 1920.