The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.87

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c11.s1.87

¹ These vessels, which we have already encountered above (Mândhâtar, no. 13; L., pl. LVIII, 86), seem to be a current accessory of Indian imagination. Compare the passage from the Jâtâkamâlâ, XV, 15 (ed. KERN, p. 97; trans. SPEYER, p. 138), where the clouds pour down « like overturned vessels ».

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Jātakamālā — Āryaśūra, Sanskrit