At a more formal level, she was convinced that ‘the beautiful Maurya sculpture presupposes continuity in the artistic traditions since the Harappa period’.

in Gonda, J., Change and Continuity in Indian Religion, op. cit., p. 26, with reference to Kramrisch, Stella, Indian Sculpture, Y.M.C.A. Publishing House, Calcutta & Oxford University Press, London, 1933, pp. 11 & 143. quoted from Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.