Artifact Attributes

Name	Value	Name	Value
ID	14	Dimensions	39.40*17.79
Accession Number	PM_02717	Location	Main hall
Provenance	Sahri Bahlol, Mardan	Period	2nd-3rd Century A.D;
Group	Gandharan	Condition	complete a
Receipt Date	1911
Material	Schist;
Measurment	cm	Check Date	0000-00-00;
Format Name	Visvantara Jataka Sculpture;
Reg No	R_1366	Book Ref No	substr(Ingholt, H., Gandhara Art in Pakistan, New York, 1957, Pl. 6, P:4 Sehrai, F., The Buddha Story in the Peshawar Museum, Pl.5, P: 21 Gandhara Sculptures in the British Musuem, Pl.137, P: 86, 142 Archaeological Survey of India, Annual Report 1909-1910, Pl. XVIII (Fig. C),0,20);

Description

Panel showing the legend of Visvantara Jataka (previous birth story of Buddha). Bodhisattva Visvantrara was extremely generous having an elephant famous for the miracle of producing rain, presented to the people on their request from a famine stricken Kalinga for this charity he was exiled from his own kingdo