Image title: Figure 96. The Enlightenment (Sanci)

Figure 96:—Panel on the inner face of the bottom architrave of the western gateway depicting another variation of the Enlightenment with the representation of people and celestial beings worshipping an empty seat under a peepal (sacred fig) tree on the left and centre and alongside Mara and his demons present on the right, Stupa I, Sanci, c. 1^st century BCE. (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.