Image title: Figure 57. Camma Sataka Jataka

Figure 57:—Coping panel depicting the Camma Sataka Jataka where the ram is represented. Bharhut, Bharhut Gallery, Indian Museum, Kolkata. (Courtesy: B. Subrahmanyam, Jatakas in Buddhist Thought and Art, Vol. II, Plate 114).

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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.