A Kushan-period Sculpture from the reign of Jaya Varma-, A.D. 184/185, Kathmandu, Nepal In early May 1992 workers digging a trench for the foundation of a house in Ma-liga-on stumbled across the most important art historical discovery in the Kathmandu Valley for many years. Lying face-down at a level of about three feet they found a life size (171 x 49 cm) standing male figure carved in pale sandstone. The sculpture is the donation of an early Licchavi monarch, named Jaya Varma in an inscription