Image title: Figure 58. Suvanna Kakkata Jataka

Figure 58:—Mutilated crossbar medallion depicting the Suvanna Kakkata Jataka with the representation of a golden crab, Bharhut, National Museum, New Delhi. (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.