Category: Painting
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#10. Elapattra
Cave No. 9 (No photo.) Identification: Zin 2000. The legend is from the life of the Buddha.—Elapattra, the nāga king, found his way to the Buddha with great difficulty. The Buddha asked him to assume his original form. Elapattra then assumed his huge body of a serpent. —Source: Singh 2019, 31-33; Schlingloff 2013, I, 73…
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#01. Paṇḍara
Cave No. 9 Identification: episode 3 by Schlingloff (1993, p. 10 f.), 1 and 2 by Zin 2000.— Once a nāga (serpent) called Paṇḍara revealed the secret of guarding against the nāga-devouring garuḍas (eagles) to an ascetic friend. But the ascetic divulged the secret to the garuḍa. Hence, the garuḍa captured the nāga. When crying…
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#02. Mahāgovinda
Cave No. 9 Identification: Schlingloff 2013.— A brahman named Mahāgovinda was the prime minister of a king. After the king’s death, the king’s son did not want the responsibility of ruling over the vast kingdom. Therefore, Mahāgovinda divided the kingdom among the son and six other princes while retaining the responsibility of superintendence. His skill…
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#03. Śaśa
Cave No. 9 Proposed identification: Schlingloff 2013.—A hermit was planning to leave his forest habitation because of the ongoing drought. To make him stay back, four animals offered gifts of food to him. An otter gave him seven Rohita breed of fish. A jackal gave a stolen dinner consisting of two skewers of meat, a…
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#05. Udaya
Cave No. 9 (No photo.) Identification: Schlingloff 1995.— A prince named Udaya was reborn as a yakṣa (a class of semi-divine being marked by genius). To keep his promise to his wife, he visited her in the palace and asked for some favours. The princess, not recognising him, wondered how he had entered the well-guarded…
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#67. Kāśyapa
Cave No. 9 Identification: episodes 1 to 3 by Foucher (1921, narrative no. 53), 4 to 8 by Schlingloff (2013). The legend is from the life of the Buddha.— As the Buddha began teaching his sermon and accepted his first disciples as monks in his doctrine, he thought of converting an ascetic. Thus, he went…