Image title: Figure 74. Worship of the Banyan Tree

Figure 74:—Pillar medallion portraying two couples worshiping an empty seat under a nyagrodha (banyan) 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.