Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v1.c5.s8.4

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¹ The event is narrated in the Jātaka as follows: ‘The queen Sivalī sent for seven hundred concubines, and said to them, “It is a long time, four full months, since we last beheld the king (Mahājanaka). We shall see him to-day; do you all adorn yourselves and put forth your graces and blandishments and try to entangle him in the snares of passion.” Attended by them all arrayed and adorned, she ascended the palace to see the king, but although she met him coming down, she knew him not, and thinking that it was a Pacceka-Buddha come to instruct the king she made a salutation and stood on one side; and the Bodhisattva came down from the palace.’ Cowell, op. cit., vi. 30-1.