Image title: Figure 61. Elephants of Mount Nadoda

Figure 61:—Panel on the outer face of the Prasenajit pillar depicting elephants worshipping an empty seat under a nyagrodha (banyan) tree at Mount Nadoda, 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.