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[[File:Stupa - Lahore Museum.jpg|thumb|Sikri stupa inside the Lahore Museum]]<br />
[[File:Indra and his harpist visit the Buddha in Indrasala Cave.jpg|thumb|Panel from the Sikri stupa showing the visit of Indra and his harpist to the Buddha in Indrasala Cave.]]<br />
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The '''Sikri stupa''' is a work of [[Buddhist art]] dated to 3rd-4th century from the [[Kushan Empire|Kushan]] period in [[Gandhara#Art|Gandahara]], consisting of 13 narrative panels with [[Life of Buddha in art|events from the life of Buddha]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bell |first1=Alexander Peter |title=Didactic Narration: Jataka Iconography in Dunhuang with a Catalogue of Jataka Representations in China |date=2000 |publisher=Lit Verlang |isbn=3825851346 |page=395 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivE2mpfbNR0C&pg=PA395 |accessdate=16 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Dehejia |first1=Vidya |title=Discourse in early Buddhist art: visual narratives of India |date=1997 |publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lb6fAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=16 August 2019}}</ref> Modern restoration accounts for their order in the [[Lahore Museum]]. The restoration began while [[Harold Arthur Deane]] was still assigned to the [[North-West Frontier Province]] in what was then [[British India]] (today part of [[Pakistan]]). Three photos taken around 1890 show the order of the panels in the earliest restoration.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Behrendt |first1=Kurt |title=Handbuch der Orientalistik |date=2004 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9004135952 |page=119 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C9_vbgkzUSkC |accessdate=16 August 2019}}</ref> <br />
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[[Gotama Buddha]] is shown sitting on a grass mat. No grass mat is shown for the representation of Buddha in the [[Trayastrimsa]] heaven.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rhie |first1=Marilyn M. |title=Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 3 |date=2010 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9004184007 |page=395 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivE2mpfbNR0C&pg=PA395 |accessdate=16 August 2019}}</ref> One panels depicts the [[Dipankara Jataka]]&mdash;the [[Jataka]] are stories of Buddha's incarnations before he was reborn as [[Siddhartha Gautama]]. In the panel, [[Sumedha]] is shown in four forms appearing before the [[Dīpankara Buddha]]. First Sumedha bargains with a flower seller. He throws the [[lotus flowers]] in the air before prostrating himself before the Buddha. The final form shows Sumeda suspended in the air like one of the lotus flowers. This narrative mimics closely the legend of the Dipankara Jataka..<ref>{{cite book |last1=Samad |first1=Rafi U. |title=The Grandeur of Gandhara: The Ancient Buddhist Civilization of the Swat, Peshawar, Kabul and Indus Valleys |date=2011 |publisher=Algora |isbn=0875868592 |page=186 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJtMBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA186 |accessdate=16 August 2019}}</ref><br />
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