The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c10.71

c10.71

I. — A frieze from the Lahore museum (no. 1156. height m. 0,16), which formerly decorated one of the counter-steps of a staircase on Karamâr Hill; from a photograph taken by the author (cf. *Art g.-b. du Gandh.*, I, fig. 158). The elephant has only one pair of tusks. — 1. On the left he is wounded in the stomach by the arrow of the hunter hidden in a ditch. — 2. He then kneels down, to allow his teeth to be sawn off. — 3. Finally, on the right, the hunter, twice represented, brings back on his shoulder his bundle of ivory, and then offers it to the royal pair of Benares. We shall note the striking contrast between the distributive order of the episodes according to the ancient Indian school and according to the Indo-Greek school of Gandhâra, there crowded together inside the same pannel, here deployed one by one along a frieze.