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Figure 7. Ajātaśatru Narrative, Cave 431, north wall, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, constructed ca. 525–545, repainted after 642 ce . From Pelliot, Les grottes de Touen-Houang , 5: pl. CCLXXIX. More

Figure 11. Panel 1: Imprisonment of the King, Ajātaśatru Narrative, Cave 209, south side of halo, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, mid-seventh century. Dunhuang Academy. More

Figure 12. Panel 2: Imprisonment of the Lady Vaidehī, Ajātaśatru Narrative, Cave 209, north side of halo, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, mid-seventh century. Dunhuang Academy. From Zhao Shengliang, Dunhuang shiku quanji , 18:66. More

Figure 13. Panel 3: Lady Vaidehī Meeting the Buddha in Landscape, Ajātaśatru Narrative, Cave 209, south wall around altar spaces, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, mid-seventh century. Dunhuang Academy. More

Figure 14. Panel 4: Lady Vaidehī Meeting the Buddha in Landscape, Ajātaśatru Narrative, Cave 209, north wall around altar spaces, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, mid-seventh century. Dunhuang Academy. More

Figure 18. Sun Ruxian (b. 1925), replica painting of the Ajātaśatru Narrative in Cave 431, Mogao Caves. Dunhuang Academy. Photo: Sheng Longhai. More

Figure 19. Detail of Ajātaśatru Narrative showing Lady Vaidehī visiting her husband. Cave 431, north wall, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, constructed ca. 525–545, repainted after 642 ce . Dunhuang Academy. More

Figure 20. Detail of the Ajātaśatru Narrative showing the confrontation between Lady Vaidehī and the Prince, Cave 431, north wall, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, constructed ca. 525–545, repainted after 642 ce . Dunhuang Academy. More

Figure 21. Detail of the replica painting of the Ajātaśatru Narrative illustrated in Figure 18 . More

Figure 22. Detail of the Ajātaśatru Narrative showing the Buddha demonstrating to Lady Vaidehī the Buddha Lands of Ten Directions, Cave 431, north wall, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, constructed ca. 525–545, repainted after 642 ce . Dunhuang Academy. More

Figure 24. Detail of the Ajātaśatru Narrative showing the Buddha on Vulture Peak, Cave 431, north wall, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, constructed ca. 525–545, repainted after 642 ce . Dunhuang Academy. More

Figure 7. A Bhaṭṭa storyteller unfolding his kāvaḍa as he recites a narrative at a patron's home in a village in Rajasthan, 2008. Photograph: courtesy of Nina Sabnani. More

Figure 44. Detail of a mirror with painted narrative scenes, Western Han dynasty, 202 bce –9 ce . Excavated in 1983 from the king of Nanyue's tomb, Guangzhou city, Guangzhou province. Bronze with polychrome paint, diam. 41 cm, thickness at the rim .5 cm. Reproduced by permission of Cultural More

Figure 2. Detail, narratives of second-floor courtyard of Takden Phuntsokling Monastery, depicting devotees in Singhala, an episode in the Muktalātā story of the Buddha's life, seventeenth century. Photograph: courtesy of Andrew Quintman and Kurtis Schaeffer. More

Figure 1. Western Pure Land Transformation Tableau, Cave 172, north wall, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, mid-eighth century. ( Left ) Ajātaśatru Narrative; ( right ) Sixteen Meditations; ( middle ) Amitabha’s Paradise. Dunhuang Academy. More

Figure 14. After Capt. Watson R.N. C.B. (English, active 1840s), Tombs of the Kings, and Sculptured Monsters, Nankin , 1842. Engraving. From Bernard and Hall, Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis , 2: frontispiece. British Library. Public domain. More