Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c18.71
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c18.71
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Fig. 64 Rail medallions. Bharhut Stūpa. a. An elephant catch, showing monkeys driving the beast. See p. 132. b. humorous scene showing monkeys extracting the hair from the nostril of a Mahāyaksha with the help of a giant forceps tucked by an elephant. For the legend of Gaja-vānara-yuddha in which monkeys obtained victory over the elephants, see Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇa, ch. 253.