of the skull covered with short curls, and it has been assumed that they were trying to copy the bunched-up hair of the Gandhara figures. But this mark is mentioned in the list of marks as given by all known schools, and these lists must have been already in existence when the Gandhara art arose. There is no* reason to think that these artists were ignorant of the tradition, and the probability is that the bunched-up hair of the Gandhara figures is their way of indicating the mark without making it appear as a deformity.
