The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.178

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[Note additional to note 1 on p. 214 : Upon reperusing M. August BARTH's Bulletins des Religions de l'Inde (Rev. de l'Hist. des Religions, t. XLV, 1902, p. 354 n. 1, or vol. II, p. 442 n. 1, of the edition of his Œuvres) we see that the identification suggested above for the bas-relief no. 14 of Dr. PLEYTE's publication has been already proposed by him. He works out in full the same interpretation : « That the maternal womb, the scene of the central incident, has been omitted, is entirely in conformity with the conventions of this art... » We are doubly fortunate in finding ourselves ex post facto at one with him and in rendering to him the priority as regards the identification.]