Studies in Indian Art c12.s12.9

c12.s12.9

Amongst Buddist sculptures we note the upper fragment of a railing pillar (No. 2663, ht. 2'-8 ½"×17 ½") acquired from a site adjoining Mahāban, showing the worship of the Dharmachakra by two devotees in añjalimudrā. The wheel is only a plain disc, but the new feature in the representation is the background of the Bodhi tree foliage shown very much like that in sculptures from Amarāvatī (Ency. Britanica, Vol. 12,p. 214, plate IV, figs. 1 and 4).