Artifact Attributes

Name	Value	Name	Value
ID	36	Dimensions	47.02*17.79
Accession Number	PM_02734	Location	Main hall
Provenance	Sahri Bahlol, Mardan	Period	2nd-3rd Century A.D;
Group	Gandharan	Condition	Incomplete
Receipt Date	1907
Material	Schist;
Measurment	cm	Check Date	2008-02-23;
Format Name	Buddha Life Story Sculpture;
Reg No	R_131	Book Ref No	substr(Sehrai, F., The Buddha Story in Peshawar Museum, Peshawar, 1991, Pl. 13, P: 26 Archaeological Survey of India, Annual Report 1906-07, Culcutta, Pl. XXXI (Fig. a), P: 109,0,20);

Description

A broken panel showing king and the Queen on a couch, with the astrologer making a horoscope of the child (Siddharatha). The scene is carved in between two Corinthian Pilasters, king Saddhodhana and Queen Maya sitting on a couch in the palace, listening to Asita and holding lotus flower in her left hand. Asita is sitting and holding the child with both hands who is wrapped in the cloth.