Coping stone fragment depicting a scene from the Sasa Jataka, identified by the inscription at the top. Now housed at the Allahabad Museum, Allahabad, this narrative sculpture is about a story where the Bodhisattva is born as a rabbit and sacrifices his life to save another's. Bharhut, Madhya Pradesh, India, 2nd century BCE.
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