Elements of Buddhist Iconography c8.10

c8.10

Similar to Fig. 2, but the pillar is differently treated and the paired riders are replaced by flying angelic types, except at the top, where two riders take the place of the apsarases. The pillar has three lotiform nodes. The segments (*parva*) between the three nodes are octagonal, and geometrically patterned, with human worshippers at the base level. Such arrangements, indeed, as those of Figs. 2 and 3 correspond exactly to such representations of superimposed worlds as may be seen at Sāñcī, east *torana*, right pillar, front face (Bachhofer, *Early Indian Sculpture*, Pl. 59), where the *Brahmaloka* is sharply differentiated from the *kāmarūpa* lokas below.