30. Identification of Four Jatakas at Bharaut. 
By Dr. B. M. Barwa, M.A., D.Lit. 
Since the publication of General Sir A. Cunningham’s beau- 
tiful and highly instructive monograph—The Stipa of Bharaut 
—in 1879, Serge d’Oldenbourg, Rhys Davids and Hultzsch 
have tried to correct Cunningham’s identification of some of 
the carvings on the railing of the Bharaut Stapa and have 
successfully identified some others left unidentified by their 
predecessor. In spite of these successive attempts. a number 
of carvings have remained unidentified. My esteemed friend 
Mr. Ramaprasad Chanda, B.A.. Superintendent of the Archeol- 
ogical Section, Indian Museum, Calcutta, has now seriously 
taken up the study of these remarkable stone-figures or 
sculptures and has been able to identify a few more bas-reliefs. 
A few months ago, he discussed in a monthly meeting of the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal the identification of two carvings. 
In this present paper I have selected only four carvings for 
identification, and so far as I am aware, they have not been™ 
identified in the same way by any previous scholar. The 
selected carvings are shown in Cunningham’s plates as: 
(1) Plate XXXITI, 6, (2) XLIII, 4, (3) XLV, 3, (4) XLVII, 7. 
1. Plate XX XIII, 6.—This contains only a small frag- 
ment or a broken portion of a sculpture depicting the scene 
of a monkey seated on an overhanging branch of a tree. The 
upper part of its body leans forward over a round shaped fruit 
clasped with its two hands and pressed towards its breast as 
if embracing the fruit. Its face rests on the fruit and is turned 
mm front. One might take it to be intended to express down- 
(No. 208). The Pali version? of the story relates that im 
key in a 
as a monkey 1 
like an elephant, 

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* Compare the Sanskrit version in Sénart’s edition of the Mahavastu 
(II. p. 246f.) and the “Story of a Porpoise” in Rajendra Lala Mitra’s 
Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, p. 138. 
