The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.91

c11.s1.91

22. (L., 170). We pass on to the third halting-place, Vokkâna. Here Mahâkâtyâyana leaves to her who in a former existence was his mother his beggar’s staff, a fresh pretext for building a *stūpa*. As in no. 20, we are present at the inauguration of the monument. At least, the continuation of the narrative accords with the introduction of this subject on the bas-reliefs in too striking a manner for the identification not to impose itself.