The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.151

c9.151

I. At the bottom, on the left, the Nativity (*Jāti*) near to Kapilavastu; at the left of Māyā the child Buddha, standing, is bathed by the two Nāgas, Nanda and Upananda; his pedestal, on each side of which two women are kneeling, seems to be composed of seven superposed lotuses, symbolizing the « seven steps » which he is supposed to have taken immediately after his birth (cf. for this detail *Ét. sur l'Iconogr. bouddh. de l'Inde*, I, fig. 28).