The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.155

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5. In the second compartment on the right, starting from the top, is the « Great Miracle » (Mahā-prātihārya), near to Çrāvastī: for the description cf. above, p. 159, and for the identification of the two attendants at the bottom, p. 164. Note further the two lotus flowers, which bend so as to fill the space underneath the seat of the central Buddha.
6. In the second compartment on the left, counting from the top, the « Descent from heaven » (Devāvatāra), near to Sānkāçya: on the right of Buddha, who is standing and whose right hand is in vara-mudrā, is Brahmā, bearer of a water-vessel and probably of a fly-flapper; on his left Çakra, holding a parasol (cf. Étud. sur l'Iconogr. bouddh. de l'Inde, I, p. 157, and Art g.-b. du Gandh., p. 537).
7. In the third left compartment from the top, the « Offering of the Monkey », near to Vaiçālī: he enters by the left of the spectator, holding the bowl of madhu, which he places between the hands of Buddha, seated on his throne, and then disappears on the right into a well, above the curb of which only his feet are still to be seen; at the top, on the right, is seen what is probably a flying divinity (cf. Ic. b. Inde, I, p. 168 and II. p. 114; Art g.-b. du Gandh., p. 512);
8. In the third compartment from the top, on the right, « the Taming of the Maddened Elephant », at Rājagriha; on the right of Buddha, who stands, with his right hand in abhaya-mudrā, the elephant is kneeling beneath a stūpa; on his left, Ānanda holds in his right hand his long mendicant's staff or khakkhara (cf. Ic. b. Inde, ibid., and Art g.-b. du Gandh., p. 542).