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Two flying goddesses wait to take the locks of hair in order to build a st?pa around them, represented on the right-hand side of the medallion (Fig. 1n in Orientations).
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Scene 36: After Chandaka returns with the horse Kanthaka, the grieving women of the palace surround the horse.
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The grieving women surrounding the returned horse.
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Three of the grieving women.
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Scene 37: In his quest for enlightenment the Bodhisattva first practises extreme asceticism.
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Scene 37: In his quest for enlightenment the Bodhisattva first practises extreme asceticism.
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His body becomes completely emaciated.
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As he did not succeed with asceticism he decides to practise another kind of meditation and to take food again.
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Scene 38: In a cemetery, he takes the clothes of a deceased girl to make himself a robe (Fig. 1o in Orientations).
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