A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c14.s2.35

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¹ In Cave XVII the story of Śibi Rājā, who gave his eyes to the beggar (No. 499; Cowell & Rouse, *transl.*, vol. iv, p. 250) is labelled. In Cave II the Kshāntivādin and Maitrībata *jātaka* pictures are accompanied by quotations from the *Jātaka Mālā* of Ārya Śūra, inscribed in characters of about the sixth century, the former being also labelled by name (Heinrich Lüders, ‘Ārya Śūra's *Jātaka-mālā* und die Fresken von Ajaṇṭā’, *Nachr. d. königl. Gesellschaft d. Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Phil.-Hist. Klasse*, 1902, p. 758). The story of the six-tusked elephant is No. 514 (Cowell and Francis, vol. v, p. 20).