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Mathura through time

Uttar Pradesh

  1. Theme 4 · 600 to 300 BCE

    Janapadas, Mahajanapadas and the second urbanisation

    Capital of Surasena, in the Braj region

  2. Theme 9 · 5th century BCE to 13th century CE

    Buddhism and Jainism: later development and decline

    The indigenous Buddha image: red Sikri sandstone, lion throne

  3. Theme 8b · 200 BCE to 300 CE; the Western Satraps to 415

    The northwestern invasions: Indo Greeks, Shakas, Pahlavas, Kushanas and the Western Satraps

    A major Kushana centre in India; the lion capital inscription, a Shaka record in Kharoshthi from the time of the Northern Satrap Rajuvula, records his chief queen's gift; the Mathura school in red Sikri sandstone

  4. Theme 10 · 319 to 550 CE

    The Gupta empire

    The Mathura school in red sandstone, its drapery in raised string like folds

  5. Theme M2 · 711 to 1186 CE

    The advent of Islam and the first Turkish invasion

    Raided in 1018; Utbi records the temples burned and the gold and silver images broken and carried off