SWAT VALLEY, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY

This rare scene depicts Siddhartha departing for school. For a similar scene, see H. Ingolt, Gandharan Art in Pakistan, 1957, cat. no. 23; and another scene showing Buddha on a cart drawn by two rams, in I. Kurita, Gandharan Art, 1990, vol. 1, figs. P1-11, p. 14.