It is something else because he is wearing a monks robe.

Heiner

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Von: INDOLOGY [mailto:indology-bounces@list.indology.info] Im Auftrag von alakendu das
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Betreff: [INDOLOGY] AMARAVATI STUPA

I saw this piece of sculpture curved out on the outer circumbualatory wall of the Amaravati Stupa , in Andhra Prdesh ,( 45 km from Vijaywada) India when I visited it in 2014.

I would like to know whether the incident refers to the event of MahaNishkraamana in the life of Siddhartha Gautam Buddha when he decided to renounce this mundane world , with his kins and near ones wailing to desist him from doing so, or is it somethimg else ?

ALAKENDU DAS