Image title: Figure 55. Mahabodhi Jataka

Figure 55:—Sketch of a mutilated coping fragment depicting the Mahabodhi Jataka with the representation of a dog sitting before an ascetic, Bharhut Gallery, Indian Museum, Kolkata. (Courtesy: B. Subrahmanyam, Jatakas in Buddhist Thought and Art, Vol. I, Plate 15).

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The art of Bharhut, dominated by sculptural reliefs narrating a popular facet of Buddhism in the form of the immense Jataka literature, represent the emergence of visual narrative art in India.—Bharhut represents the earliest evidence of narrative art which display many story telling techniques.