The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.213

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II. — Plate XXVI, 2, was made from a photograph which we believe to be unpublished, and for which we are indebted to the kind communication of Dr. Burgess; the original formed a part of a private collection in England, now transferred to the Ethnographical Museum in Berlin : in height it measures m. 0,65 ; it comprises the two lower stories of a gable of a *stūpa* (cf. *Art g.-b.*, pp. 128 and 186). At the bottom a teaching Buddha, seated on a raised lotus, seems to be placed under garlands or the very artificial foliage of a tree (cf. pl. XXIV, 2) ; two other little Buddhas (the one on the right, in relation to the central image, seems rather a *caramabhāvika* Bodhisattva, similar to fig. 145 of *Art g.-b.*), appear under aerial ædiculæ in the upper corners of the panel. Of the two divine acolytes, the one on the right wears a chignon, and the one on the left a turban. Moreover, four tall lay persons are seated beside Buddha ; those with chignons in the corner have their feet crossed in the same manner as has the right-hand attendant on plate XXV, 1 ; the two others, who are turbaned, are in attitudes which we shall find again on plates XXVII and XXVIII, 1 : their number makes us think of the four Lokapālas (cf. above, pp. 173, n. 1, and 174).