The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c7.s1.t2.2

c7.s1.t2.2

We will begin with those which are figured on the two faces, namely the front and the interior ones, which hold the place of honour in the jambs. We have already seen that their exterior faces bear only one decorative motif (§ 1 a). As regards their rear faces, they left no space above the balustrade, except for two little bas-reliefs, analogous to those which we have already noticed on the supports (cf. § 4 a and a') : taken all together, they represent in the same stereotyped manner, by the pretended adoration of the tree, the wheel and the stûpa, the three great traditional miracles of the Illumination, the Preaching, and the Death of Buddha.