Image title: Figure 128. Female on Lotus

Figure 128:—Pillar chamfer sculpture showing a female standing on a padma (lotus) flower under a lotus-like tree, Bharhut, Bharhut Gallery, Indian Museum, Kolkata. (Courtesy: Arabinda Ghosh, Remains of Bharhut Stupa in the Indian Museum, Plate 24, f).

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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.