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# Drawing on paper

Drawing on paper, showing pair of hands, set upright on flat lotus, with inscription indicating significance of each finger in Buddhist symbolism, and element to which each corresponds. These latter, beginning with thumb, are; the heavenly spaces, air, fire, water, and earth. Soft yellow paper.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 600–999 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.nm.2003-18-303](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.nm.2003-18-303) · Pramāṇa
