Indian Sculpture c9.116

c9.116

88. This refers to images and to reliefs which are not narrative. But in the few narrative friezes (R. D. Banerji, *Bas Reliefs at Bādāmī*, A.S.I.M., No. 25, Pls. XXIII d, XXIV b, c; and Auraṅgābād, *Études d' Orientalisme*, Vol. I, Pl. XXI), trees, etc., occur, if rarely, and are interspersed with the figures; they are used as requisites and actors or else indicate locality. To this extent and in this manner they were also employed in the later phases of the reliefs of Veṅgi (see p. 48). But in exceptional instances (Ajaṇṭā, Kramrisch, op. cit., Pl. 8) trees and foliage are as telling as the human figures.