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Bharhut: Life of the Buddha - Defeat of Mara and Enlightenment

INDIA, Madhya Pradesh, Bharhut; circa early 1st century BCE; Red sandstone; H: 230 cm; Indian Museum, Kolkata, India
The column was originally located at the gateway of the stupa. A succession of scenes, it consists of four registers. An inscription on the divider beneath the uppermost register reads the enlightenment tree of Sakyamuni Buddha" and indicates that the building on which it appears is the Vihara at Bodhgaya

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