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Blurigara in Sanskrit Literature
scarafe for water" is evidently correct; but I think in this case is definitely possible to go a step further, i.e. to do more than just termine its function, namely to connect it with its proper designaon which cannot but be bhrigara;" for one of the "carafe's" peculi. Crities is precisely the "clephant-trunk-like" spout, i.e a spout which has the form of the letter "s". On the other hand it has to be taken into account that the Berlin roll painting is dated 1837 and thus more than 1300 years younger than the information gleaned from the famous Pali commentator And such a distance in time cannot be simply passed over as entirely insignificant however marked the traditionalism of Indian culture.
Fortunately, however, there are much older pictorial testimonies which can in a similar manner be connected with Buddhaghosa's remark. For Lüders draws attention to "one of the most beautiful reliefs from Bharhut" showing "Anathapedika when donating the Jetavana to the Buddha, and the donation is confirmed by pouring water from a vessel similar in shape to a teapot." In a foot-note he refers to Cunningham's well-known work on the Stupa of Bhar. hut," viz. p. 14 (fl.) and plate XXVIII. In view of the text of the inscription found immediately below the sculpture the correctness of the identification of the scene is beyond any doubt. This means that it can be taken for granted that what is depicted here is a particular donation ceremony, i.e. an act with which the bhragdra has been found to be intimately connected Now, the vessel which Ansthapindika carries placed on his left hand, holding its handle with his right (or perhaps carries by the handle with his right hand, merely supporting it by his left hand)" is admittedly different from the one depicted by the Nevar artists of the Berlin roll. It has pot only an (arched, handle, but it is indeed similar to a teapot also in
75. 0. c. p. 42.
76 Its Nepati name, however, is ghara ( <Skt. ghar(ka)). 17. Quoted from his Varuna (cf fn. 52). 1. c.
The Srapa af Bharhul: A Buddhist Monunient ..., by A. Cunningham, Repr.
Varanasi 1962. ". In contradistinction to what is seen on the painted scroll from Nepal (cf. n. 72).
The impression one cannot help gathering here is that use of both hands is provoked, if not primarily then at least also, by the practical needs of safe and Steady carriage.
