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# Figure

Part of a carved wooden Buddhist shrine (portable) with three niches: the central contains a figure of an ivory seated Bodhisattva flanked by many attendants. The left and right niches are are empty but probably contained standing figures of female attendants.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 700–799 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1968-0521-1](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1968-0521-1) · Pramāṇa
