The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c5.s5.49

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C. Dharma-chakra-pravartana. — We shall notice likewise that, for his First Preaching, the Buddha of Gandhāra and of Amarāvatī has not yet adopted the gesture consecrated to teaching (cf. no. 3 C.). On the other hand, we see on no. 1 C the wheel and a gazelle, and on no. 2 C two gazelles. If from no. 3 C (where, by an exception, Buddha is seated in European fashion) these accessories are absent, the omission is repaired on other stelæ of the same school (cf. Iconogr. bouddh. de l'Inde, I, fig. 29, and BURGESS, Anc. Mon. India, pll. 67-68).