Abstract:Vessantara Jātaka is one of the Buddhist alms stories, which can be found in Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese classics. The development of the story is basically the same between texts, but the details are different. The British Museum has stair-riser panels excavated from the Jamal Garhi site in Pakistan. Three sections of these panels outline the main story. This series of panels is a typical representative of Vessantara Jātaka reliefs in the Gandhara area. Through the comparison between the images and the texts, we can basically judge that the Vessantara Jātaka panel images in the British Museum are the closest to the relevant records in the a pāramitā-sannipāta-sūtra.