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# Figure of Buddha

Seated deity or Bodhisattva turned to his left and in dhyāna. The hair is secured by a plain fillet above a row of curls and by another at the base of the large chignon; on the chignon the hair is rendered by small circular depressions and between the fillets by raised undulating lines.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 300–499 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1937-0716-155](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1937-0716-155) · Pramāṇa
