The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.23

c11.s1.23

10. (L., 20). « A prince, seated in his house with his wife and two servants, is giving audience to six men, perhaps wise Brahmans, with whom he is engaged in a very animated conversation... » Here, again, it is only from the text that we learn that the locality of the scene is transferred back to Hastinâpura, the capital of northern Pâñcâla, and that the father of Sudhana is asking his Brahman astrologers for an explanation of a bad dream. The wicked chaplain takes advantage of this to prescribe, among other remedies forestalling such bad omens, the sacrifice of a Kinnari. The king seems to make a gesture of protest, and his wife shows manifest signs of sorrow.