The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c5.s1.3
The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c5.s1.3
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(¹) A. CUNNINGHAM, *Stûpa of Barhut*, pl. XIII-XVII. (²) See below, pp. 75 and 105; cf. pl. X, 1. (³) *Art gréco-bouddhique du Gandhâra*, fig. 177 and p. 345. (⁴) See on the staircase of the British Museum, nºs 44 and 48, or FERGUSSON, *Tree and Serpent Worship*, pl. XCI, 4, and LXI, 2. (⁵) Let us add, in order to be quite correct, « at least under his human form »; for we know that a bas-relief at Barhut represents the Blessed One descending into the bosom of his mother in the form of an elephant (cf. below, p. 20).