The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.56

c11.s1.56

15. (L., 90). Here the text, in order better to depict the insatiable greed of the human heart, enters upon a series of repetitions impossible to reproduce on stone. King Mândhâtar has for a herald (*purojava*) a *yaksha*, or genius, who at each fresh conquest informs him of what still remains for him to conquer. On the monument we are in the presence, once for all, of this periodical council meeting : for the rest, the sculptor has given to the *yaksha* the ordinary appearance of a Brahmanic minister.