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Object ID OB00111
Title Sarnath Relief Panel of the 5th Century
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Inscription(s) IN00123
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Description
Material Stone / sandstone
Object Type Sculpture
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Details A relief panel showing three scenes of the Buddha's life, presumably his birth, enlightenment and first sermon. Dimensions not reported. The inscription is below the bas-relief.
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Date probably in 1835-36
Place Sārnāth
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Date 1888
Place Imperial Museum, Calcutta
Authority Fleet, J. F. (1888). Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings and Their Successors. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing.
Details Discovered by Cunningham, probably in 1835-36. The panel was found tightly stacked with many other sculptures in the remnants of a small building a few metres to the north of a temple "in the high ground to the westward" (site plan in ASIR 01: Plate 33).
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