[INDOLOGY] Buddhist murals Sri Lanka Vessantara-Jataka

[Rolf Heinrich Koch]

Dear listmembers,
there is one episode in the Vessantara-Jātaka which describes the 
following plot:

...After Vessantara gave away the two horses of his coach, Sakka advised 
four junior gods
to pull Vessantara's coach. They appeared in the guise of a red deer....

Some murals which depict this plot show four horses instead of the red deer.
As the only textual source I found one edition of the Butsarana with 
aśvaveśa (for mṛgaveśa).
All Pali and further Sinhala sources read mṛgaveśa.

I suppose there is a northern tradition which records aśvaveśa (Gilgit, 
Tibetan or Chinese).

Anyone came across this version and is willing to share this with me?

Thank you in advance

Heiner

Rolf Heinrich Koch
https://rolfheinrichkoch.wordpress.com/