The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.100

c11.s1.100

We consider ourselves none the less authorized by this inscription to consider the two numbers 178 and 180 as a replica of this same jātaka : what other justification can be given for the edifying character of these scenes and for their introduction into the series? Certainly the subject is once again borrowed from one of the previous lives of the Master : the only question is exactly which « re-birth » is concerned. Here the two prolix pictures of Boro-Budur will be of assistance in determining retroactively the real identification of the bas-relief of Barhut, so poor in details. It is here quite clear, for example, that the scene of the adventure is a rocky solitude : we must at once put aside a certain episode in the Takkāriya-jātaka (no. 481), since it takes place in a royal court, where two Kinnaras, put in to a cage, refuse to display their talents. Moreover, we cannot fix upon the Candakinnara-jātaka (no. 485), although that