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The elephant and rider type diptychs are among four main types of the Miniature Portable Shrines from Gandhara and Kashmir. The remaining three types include “Basket Man Type”, Brahmana Type” and “Plain Exterior Type”. These diptych type portable shrines were used as another medium of narrating life story of the Buddha. The main objective of this paper is to introduce these diptychs along with description of their exterior and interior iconographical treatment. A slight comparative analysis of the depiction of few episodes from life of the Buddha with the general Buddhist narrative art in Gandhara, is also a part of the investigation.