Image title: Figure 27. Episode of Adhyeshana

Figure 27:—Panel on the Brahmadeva pillar depicting the adhyeshana episode with the representation of elephant mounted gods worshipping an empty seat under a peepal (sacred fig) tree, 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.