Image title: Figure 72. Chanda Yakshi

Figure 72:—Railing pillar showing the female divinity Chanda Yakshi standing on a jalaturaga (seahorse) beneath a naga (ironwood) tree in the attitude of a shalabhanjika (dryad), Bharhut, Bharhut Gallery, Indian Museum, Kolkata. (Photograph by the author).

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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.