The Departure
Gandhar School,1st Century CE.
At the dead of the night, leaving his wife, Yashoda and the new born child, Rahul fast asleep, Prince Siddharth left his palace at Kapilvastu. In order to make sure that the horse's hoofs did not make any noise, demi-gods lifted the horse (notice the 'man' lifting the horse's front leg). The other characters are the people of the night: a soldier, a woman. Whether these figures are actual people or the projections of the psyche of Prince Siddharth is an unanswered question. The artist leaves the answers to the viewer.
We have to leave behind our past in order to progress. We have to search within to discover the Divine. And the journey begins from home.
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