Indian Sculpture c8.54

c8.54

The next scene illustrating the Kaṇha Jātaka (?) is not shown fully in this reproduction, but only up to the break in the coping stone. Three more male figures, with their hands in añjali mudrā, are placed in the missing part behind the figure of Sakka, who, after having tested the ‘dark’ (kaṇha) ascetic, salutes him, who lived at the root of a tree in the open air, never made a hut of leaves, sat upon the ground as if he were one with the four elements, in the highest contentment, eating only things uncooked by fire.