The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c6.s1.17

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but when his father, informed by the driver, runs up with his suite, full of joy, it is only to find him already transformed by the providential intervention of the king of the gods into an ascetic, and sitting in the shadow of the trees of his hermitage : and this forms the subject of the third and last episode, on the right top border of the medallion.