The south and north sides of the entrance wall in cave 165 of the Northern Grottoes Temple at Qingyang has an image of an elephant-riding bodhisattva and an image of Asura.This Indra on the south side has long been identified as Samantabhadra bodhisattva.Nonetheless,this paper considers it to be Indra,who generally appears as a bodhisattva riding an elephant.Indra and Asura usually appear in pairs guarding two sides of the entrance wall in Buddhist structures.
