Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.199

c16.199

A pre-Gandhāra sculpture showing two monks, the older feeding a bird, the younger one, a new arrival, resting against his baggage-basket hung on a pole ; an altar and a water-pot (*kamaṇḍalu*) shown in the field ; some trees and a pair of deer running over a rocky surface, symbolical of the sylvan environment ; the third panel shows the young monk alone.