The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.116

c9.116

in India, fig. 112) : here Buddha is indeed seated between the two worshippers on the characteristic lotus, but — by an exception which, for the rest, is since the last excavations of Takht-i-Bahai (cf. below, p. 172, note 1) not unique — he is making the gesture of meditation, instead of that of instruction.
(1) *Divyâvadâna*, p. 155, l. 18; *Jātaka*, IV, p. 265, l. 10.
(2) From the point of view of the arrangement of the attendants we may connect with this plate the fragment published by Dr. J. Ph. VOGEL in *Archæol. Survey Report*, 1903-1904, pl. LXVIII *b* (with the Nāgarājas) and *c*.