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# Figure of Maitreya

Seated Maitreya, holding a water pot and originally in abhaya. The uttarīya is in the wide mode, the ends thick and tasselled; one falls down the front beside the three rounded ends of the paridhāna. The drapery on the left upper arm has a straight lower edge.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 100–299 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1902-0520-2](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1902-0520-2) · Pramāṇa
