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Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar, male figure with a trident, possibly Shiva

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar, detail showing worship of Bodhimanda

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar, detail of a human face in a lotus medallion assumed to represent the image of the donor

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar, detail of a human face in a lotus medallion assumed to represent the image of the donor

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Bodh Gaya Railing, female figure, probably a yakshi, with her male counterpart

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Bodh Gaya Railing, female figure, probably a yakshi, with her male counterpart

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Bodh Gaya Railing, female figure, probably a yakshi, with her male counterpart, detail

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct, detail of a devotee worshiping the Diamond Throne

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct, detail of devotees worshipping the Bodhi tree

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Detail of the coping stone of the railing pillar that originally enclosed the Mahabodhi temple precinct

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct. The upper part on one side depicts a scene from the Rohantamiga Jataka. The central medallion depicts a turbaned head within a lotus medallion and there is a half-medallion in the lower part.

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar, detail of a human face in a lotus medallion assumed to represent the image of the donor

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct.The panel depicts a scene from the Rohantamiga Jataka. It depicts a noble stag standing on a rock seat facing a boy accompanied by a woman. This quadruped teacher had once appeared in the dream of the queen of Benaras and given her discourse. On waking up she became so enamored by her dream that she wanted to listen to the discourse again. The boy in front of the stag was son of a hunter chief who had seen the noble animal before.

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