The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c7.38

c7.38

¹ See FERGUSSON, pl. VII et XXXVIII (and comp. western gate, ibid., pl. XVIII et XXXVIII, 2) : this scene was originally carved on the face of the lower lintel, and such is indeed the position assigned to it by the drawing of COLE, reproduced by FERGUSSON; but in the restoration this lintel and the higher one were replaced back to front. — It was the same with the three lintels of the western gate : on the other hand COLE had in his drawing inverted the order of the first and the third.