Image title: Figure 123. Vessantara Jataka (Gandhara)

Figure 123:—Relief depicting the Vessantara Jataka with the representation of a horse-drawn chariot, Northwest Pakistan (Gandhara), c. 3^rd century CE, British Museum, London. (Courtesy: Carmel Berkson, The Life of Form in Indian Sculpture, Plate 103).

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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.