The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.98

c11.s1.98

(²) It is not that monsters of this kind are unknown to ancient Indian sculpture; but the woman with a horse’s head, who, on a medallion of the balustrade of Bodh-Gayā (Rāj. MITRA, *Buddha-Gayā*, pl. XXXIV, 2) and of that of the smaller *stūpa* at Sāñchī, is carrying away a man, is at the commencement of *Jāt.* no. 432, which relates her history, simply called a *yakkhīṇī assamukhī*.