The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c10.58
The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c10.58
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¹ Cf. M. S. LÉVI, *Açvaghosha, le Sūtrālaṅkāra et ses Sources*, in the *Journal Asiatique*, July-August 1908, p. 175. Stanislas JULIEN (I, p. 360) translates in fact: « The elephant tore out his tusks », and WATTERS (II, p. 53) says exactly the same. According to BEAL (II, p. 49) he « broke off his tusks ». M. CHAVANNES admits that this second translation might literally be possible: but, not to mention that the sense of « breaking » is given in the dictionary of Couvreur as a secondary meaning, it is that of « tearing out » which corresponds to the description of the attitude in the Sûtrâlankâra, and its representation in the fresco of cave XVII of Ajaṇṭâ.