The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c10.54

c10.54

(¹) It will be noticed that the final list differs slightly from that which we drew up at the beginning of this study. On the one hand, we have had to leave aside the lintel at Sânchî, which, treated too decoratively, did not supply us with any information upon the precise point which we are now considering; on the other hand, the tenor of the commentary of the Jâtaka has shown itself so divergent from that of the text that we have had to divide this source into two. On the whole, then, we always reckon twelve versions, five artistic and seven literary.