Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v4.c16.s19.14

v4.c16.s19.14

On the right side at the bottom of the fresco is a company of seventeen monks, one of whom is painted of a slightly larger size than the others, and for this reason he may perhaps be identified with the Elder Sāriputta, whose wisdom and perspicacity the Buddha made known to the congregation by putting successively more and more difficult questions to him.² The next prominent figure in the group, dressed in a striped robe, may represent Moggallāna, second in rank to Sāriputta among the chief disciples of the Buddha.³