Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v2.c8.s21.22

v2.c8.s21.22

Below the last episode are two scenes, separated from each other by a balcony in which a rānī, evidently the wife of Dhanañjaya, is shown talking with a *dāsī* (Plates XXXV–XXXVII). The scene to the left (Plate XXXVI *a*) portrays Dhanañjaya discussing with his minister Vidhurapaṇḍita the question whether under the terms of the wager the latter could be treated as the property of the king. Vidhurapaṇḍita, being always truthful, has just observed that he was only a slave to the king, and in fulfilment of the wager might be given away to Pūrṇaka.