The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.137

c9.137

¹ Again an interesting replica of our plate XXVIII, 2 will be found on plate XXXI, 1, of CUNNINGHAM. We should be quite willing to connect with it the representations of wheels on pillars, like that of plate XXXIV, 4 (cf. at Sânchî, FERGUSSON, *Tree and Serpent Worship*, pl. XLII, 1). Perhaps it would even be necessary to see a reference to the *mâha-prâtihârya* in the wheel which, according to the evidence of Fa-hien and Hiuan-tsang, surmounted one of the two columns raised at the entrance to the Jetavana.