Image title: Figure 105. The First Sermon (Gandhara)

Figure 105:—Panel depicting the First Sermon with a pair of deer beneath the Buddhaʼs throne, Northwest Pakistan (Gandhara), c. 2^nd century CE, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States. (Courtesy: Ratan Parimoo, Life of Buddha in Indian Sculptures, Fig. 59).

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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.