Synopsis This book “EARLY BUDDHIST METAL IMAGES OF SOUTH ASIA” with Special Reference to Gupta-Vakataka Period is a Joint work of Mrs. Madhuri Sharma and D.P. Sharma, both Art Historians, Archaeologists and Museologists. This includes a chapter on origin of Metal images of South Asia, different stages of Gupta period Art and Catalogue data of rare metal images of Gupta-Vakataka period. The large number of Gupta period metal images are on display in the Museums of U.S.A., U.K., Singapore, Malaysia and other countries and there are only a few (around 10) in collections of India. The author has documented all these images in this publication. The other chapters of this book are on comparison of Gupta-Vakatakas metal images with Amaravati, Gandhar, Ceylone and South East Asia; History of Gupta-Vakatakas, Art style of Gupta Vakataka period, Mehroli Iron pillar of Chandra Gupta II (Posthumous A.D. 412-415), Vakataka period excavated sites of Vidarbha which includes Mansar, Nagardhan, Mandhal and Ramtek. The authors partly agree with the view of Harley, R.C. Sharma, Pramod Chandra, Pratapditya Pal, Cuzuma S.J. Lerner, William, Dorismeth Srinivasan, Usha Tiwari, U.N. Roy, A.L. Srivastava, Vidhya Dahejia, Anamika Roy, F.M. Ashler, Anupa Pande on various stages of sculptural Art of Gupta period. They also accept two schools of Gupta Art i.e. Mathura and Sarnath. But the authors are of opinion that Mathura Art represents earlier stage and Sarnath Art is developed stage of Gupta Art. The authors have concluded that Vakataka Metal images of phophnar and Ramtek have their origin in Late Amaravati School of Eastern Deccan (Andhra). Buddhist metal images of Ceylone and export items of Kedah (Malaysia) also have their origin from Late Amaravati bronzes. The capital of Mehroli pillar is identical in Art style with the pillar of Eran. There is the possibility of CHAKRA being on the top of the capital.