The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.212

c9.212

The framework at the bottom is filled by a row consisting of the six predecessors of our Buddha, of Çākya-muni himself, and of his presumptive successor Maitreya (for the possible connection with the middle scene cf. above, p. 162, n. 1). Seven human beings, probably the donors (cf. p. 173, n. 1), surround them : on the spectator's right we recognize a monk, then a male and female devotee; on his left, two male devotees, one female and a child.