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This stele has been regarded as the iconography of the “Miracles of Sravasti” depicted in the Divyavaddna chapter (12). This point has already been made by A. Foucher at the biginning of this century. However since other sculptures with inscriptions connected to Mahayana Buddhism were discovered, other articles have been published.
Indeed, many Bodhisattvas and miraculous deeds of Buddhas are described on this stele and it also has many connections with Mahayana Buddhism. By comparing the figures on this stele with the ones described in the Amitayur-dhyana-sutra I discovered that all the figures on the stere mutch those of the sutra.
From this fact, it can be assumed that the stele is a description of this sutra and it should threfore be named “The Scenes from the Amitayur-dhyana-sutra”. Moreover there is a resemblance between the ornaments of persons' heads found on the coins of Kushano Sasan and Kidara Kushan and those of the stele and it can therefore be said to date back from about the end of the 3rd century to the 5th century A. D.
