Image title: Figure 118. War for Buddha’s Relics (Sanci)

Figure 118:—Panel on the inner face of the central architrave of the western gateway depicting the war for Buddha’s relics with the representation of the elephant and horses as beasts of war, 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.