One Theme, Two Sculptures and Three Possessions Buddhist Relief Panels from Gandhāra Representing Siddhārtha Going to School

Two panels, one in the Mardan MuseumMardan Museum, Pakistan, and the other in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, represent the same theme with the same general iconographic features and they are also identical in shape. The Mardan Museum sculpture remained on display for long time but since then has passed from sight, conversely, photographs of an identical panel have long been preserved in the archives of the Department of Archaeology, University of PeshawarUniversity of Peshawar. This article focuses on the acquisition history of these three (?) panels and other related facts in addition to the reason for their iconographic similarities.