Maurya and Shunga Art c11.10.4

c11.10.4

It may therefore be safely assumed that such horizontal and vertical panel arrangement of scenes in continuous narration at Barhut and later on at Bodhgaya, Sanchi and elsewhere was directly adopted from scroll-paintings of popular and tribal tradition. It is thus clear that Śuṅga religious and cultural ideology as evidenced in the sculptures of Barhut was unlike that of Aśoka; indeed it was more popular in character and more collective in its aim and origin.