Indian Sculpture c5.s1.t7.22

c5.s1.t7.22

Some of the scenes, such as the War of the Relics, the Chaddanta Jātaka52 and in other monuments other scenes—the dream of Māyā, for instance, in Amarāvati—are repeated. This recurrence of the one and the same scene on one monument establishes the ever-present actuality of the scene. What matters is not that it once happened, but that in all its importance it did happen and this cannot be repeated too frequently. In its significance the scene is ever present. The repetition of the same scene in several compositions on one monument is a feature cognate with the timelessness in the rendering of each composition (p. 18).