Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v2.c8.s9.6

v2.c8.s9.6

The story seems to have been continued in the upper part of the fresco, as we notice another chamber in which a rānī is talking to her consort. She is evidently Mahā-Māyā relating the dream to King Śuddhodana. The pose of the rānī is most graceful, and reminiscent of the pose of Sīvalī in the Mahājanaka Jātaka scene of Cave I.¹ As the technique and artistic detail of several other figures of this subject resemble those of the Mahājanaka Jātaka, it appears either that the same person painted both, or that they belonged to a common school.