The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.150
The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.150
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1.— This stele was obtained from the excavations carried out by the Archaeological Survey at Sārnāth, near Benares, during the season 1906-1907. Its height is about one metre. We reproduce it from a photograph kindly lent by Mr. J. H. MARSHALL, and already published by him in the *J. R. A. S.*, Oct. 1907, pl. 4. It is divided into eight panels, on which are represented the eight great scenes from the life of Buddha (cf. p. 23); they are: