Image title: Figure 102. The First Sermon (Sanci)

Figure 102:—Outer panel on the western pillar of the southern gateway depicting the First Sermon with the representation of a deer family at the bottom, 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.