Category: Painting

Cave No. 16 Identification: Foucher (1921, narrative nos. 58–60). The legend is from the life of the Buddha.—After defeating the ascetics with his superhuman powers, the Buddha went to Indra’s heaven. He spent three months there and preached the doctrine to his mother, who was reborn as a goddess, besides other gods and goddesses. On…

Cave No. 16 Sutasoma. (No photo.) Identification: Foucher (1921, narrative no. 20). For the story, vide Cave 17, No. 57. —Source: Singh 2019, 31-33; cf. Schlingloff 2013, I, 251-252 Related Images:

Cave No. 1 (No photo.) Identification: Schlingloff (1977a, p. 458 f.)— There was a little vartakā (Hindi/Gujarati baṭér; Eng. quail). It had eaten only the vegetative leftovers of the food brought to the nest by its parents. Once there was a forest fire, which soon approached the nest. All the birds flown away except the little…

Cave No. 16 (No photo.) Identification: Schlingloff (1987, p. 144). For the story, vide Cave 2, narrative no. 16. —Source: Singh 2019, 31-33; Schlingloff 2013, I, 94 Related Images:

Cave No. 16 (No photo.) Identification: Begley (1966, p. 125, n. 9).— Once there was a tigress in a jungle. A brahman was passing by. He saw her starving. He feared that she might eat her own cubs. So, he climbed a hillock and jumped to death in front of her so that the tigress can…

Cave No. 16 (No photo.) Identification: Chakravarti in Yazdani (vol. III, 1946, p. 96).— Prince Viśvantara practised extreme form of charity. He never refused donation to anybody. He owned an esteemed elephant and rode often to inspect the donation halls. Once, brahmans from a hostile neighbouring kingdom asked the elephant in donation. Viśvantara gave away the…

Cave No. 16 Identification: Schlingloff (1977a, p. 466 f.)— Along with his six brothers, a sister, a friend, and servants, a brahman and his family had renounced the worldly life. They dedicated their lives to meditation. Each lived alone in a hut and met once in five days to receive spiritual discourse from their eldest…

Cave No. 16 Identification: Schlingloff (1977a, p. 467 f.)— At a time when alcoholic drinks did not exist, a hunter found a cut in a tree from which came drop by drop an intoxicating drink for natural fermentation. With the help of an ascetic, he produced and sold the beverage in the royal cities with…

Cave No. 16 Identification: Foucher (1921, narrative no. 22).— Once a group of travellers got lost in a forest. They were exhausted and almost close to death, when they met a hastin (elephant) and pleaded with him for help. The elephant, knowing that they would not find food in the oasis, directed them to a…