The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c10.32

c10.32

If now we bring the two lists together, we obtain, always only as a subsidiary one : of the first, a very ingenious one, that he advances, — and according to which the great elephant one day, unintentionally, by shaking a çâla tree in full blossom, caused to fall on his second wife, who was standing to windward, only twigs of wood, dry leaves, and red ants, while the first, who was to the leeward, received flowers, pollen and green shoots — there is no more question at Barhut than in the texts, except this particular commentary.