Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v4.c16.s5.4
Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v4.c16.s5.4
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¹ The subject is painted on a grand scale in the antechamber, left of the shrine-door, in this *vihāra* (Plates XI*b* and XLI). It is also to be noticed in the bas-reliefs of Amarāvatī. Foucher is inclined to identify the subject with the ‘offering of a handful of dust’, made to the Blessed One by the child who afterwards became Aśoka. *Jour. Hyd. Arch. Soc.*, Part V (1919-20), pp. 86-87.