Image title: Figure 24. The Assault of Mara

Figure 24:—Panel on the Prasenajit pillar depicting the Maradharshana (or the ‘defeat of Mara’) with the representation of a few shiri̅sha trees, Bharhut, Bharhut Gallery, Indian Museum, Kolkata. (Photograph by the author).

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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.