The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c7.32

c7.32

² We have not noticed on the eastern gate any specimen of *jâtaka*; but, in order that it may not be thought that they were excluded from the repertory of Sânchî, let us point out those of the elephant Ṣaḍdanta on the posterior face of the middle lintel of the southern gate (FERGUSSON, pl. VIII), of the rishi Ekaçṛiṅga, recognizable at once by his one frontal horn, and of prince Viçvantara on the lower lintel of the northern gate (FERGUSSON, pl. XI-Xa and XXIV, 3), of the Mahâkapi and Çyâma on the southern jamb of the western gate (FERGUSSON, pl. XVIII-XIX and XXXIV).