The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.201

c9.201

In the bottom corners two kneeling worshippers, a monk and a lay female devotee — strangers, it seems, to the scene and only inserted for a purely decorative purpose — are, perhaps, the donors, perhaps two of the usual attendants. (Cf. above, pp. 173, note 1, and 173-4).