The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.121

c9.121

¹ This identification was proposed incidentally by Dr. J. Ph. VOGEL, *A. S. I. Rep.*, 1903-1904, p. 257 : but, in a general way, we believe it safer to look for donors only on the bases of stelæ (cf. pll. XXV, 1 ; XXVI, 1, and XXVII) or the pedestals of statues. — On the other hand, the hypothesis of Dr. VOGEL (*ibid*, n. 3) which suggests the identity of the four nimbused figures seated on the lower row of the same stele (pl. XXVIII, 1) with the four Lokapâlas, seems to us most probable and confirmed by analogy with plates XXVI, 2, and XXVII. because there had been a confusion, which is always easy, between the right and the left of the statue and those of the spectator.