Image title: Figure 86. Dream of Mayadevi (Gandhara)

Figure 86:—Panel depicting Mayadeviʼs dream of a celestial elephant encircled by a halo, attended by a pair of royal chamber maids, Mardan, Pakistan (Gandhara), c. 2^nd century CE, 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.