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Description Scene of the Gift of Dirt mentioned in Ashokavadana: In his previous birth as a young boy named Jaya, the Mauryan emperor Ashoka gifts Gautama Buddha a bowl of dirt, dreaming that the dirt is food. Gandhara, 2nd century CE. Musee Guimet (Paris), personal photograph 2006.
Date 6 September 2006 (according to Exif data)
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