300 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Sept., 1915. 
among the Sarnath sculptures in the Indian Museum (Nos. 8. 2 
and 3).! 
It is very curious that on a similar stele from Amaravati,’ 
pow in the Madras Museum, we find the Nativity replaced by the 
part in Buddhist sculpture. 
It is impossible to decide about what time the four places 
the visit of Indra to Buddha in the Indragaila Cave, and asa 
wi 
that the latter four scenes only partially eae! to the four 
piece of sculpture) that at the time when the Mathura schoo! 
flourished, viz. in the Kusin period, those four minor sce! : 
m 
! Anderson, Catalogue, Vol. II, pp. 6f. Burgess, Ancient Menyener’ 
Part I; plates 65-68. pela, 
2 J. Burgess, The Buddhist Stupas of Amaravati and cg It is 
Pp. 77f.; plate XLI, 6, for the inscription see plate LVII, No-!?. 
interesting to compare figure 27 on p. 89. t Vol. XI), 
3 The Book of the Great Decease (Sacred Books of the tiet 
pp. 90f. reliefe 4 
_ * Cf. my Etudes de sculpture bouddhique. No. III, Les ba eorient 
tiipa de Dhruv Tila in Bulletin de l’ Ecole Francaise @' Extré 
Tome VITI (1908), pp. 492 ff. | 
