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UPSC 1996: Which one of the following sculptures invariably used green schist as the medium?
(a)Maurya sculptures
(b)Mathura sculptures
(c)Bharhut sculptures
(d)Gandhara sculptures
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Gandhāran images of the Buddha and Bodhisattvas were characteristically carved in a grey-green chlorite/blue schist quarried in the Swat–Peshawar region; Maurya (polished sandstone), Mathura (red sandstone) and Bharhut (reddish sandstone) did not employ green schist. ([eleonora.nyc](https://eleonora.nyc/gandharan-schist-of-the-buddha-of-the-future?utm_source=openai))
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This question was asked in UPSC CSE Prelims 1996, GS Paper 1, as Question 53. It falls under Art & Culture > Sculpture & Iconography.
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