The image comes with every book from Sahitya Akademi and always has the note:
The sculpture reproduced on the endpaper depicts a scene where three soothsayers are interpreting to King Suddhodana the dream of Queen Maya, mother of Lord Buddha. Below them is seated a scribe recording the interpretation. This is perhaps the earliest available pictorial record of the art of writing in India.
From Nagarjunakonda, 2nd Century A.D.
Courtesy: National Museum, New Delhi.
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