Some of the larger carvings are even more interesting, showing processions gathered around a stupa. Below, for example, one can see clearly musicians in the front row; men holding banners and offering receptacles behind them; and a single figure who seems to be making a full prostration outside the gate of the stupa; a figure higher up on the right in the carving who seems to be circumambulating, and (on the left) climbing stairs to the walkway; and finally, winged figures above, who are most likely celestial musicians joining in the worship! Interestingly, none of the figures potrayed are wearing monk’s garb, as is true in most of the carvings; and in fact their clothing suggests that they are non-Indian. Indeed, by the 1st century CE Buddhist practice had taken rooted to the northwest of India, in terrirtories formerly conquered by Alexander the Great.