Studies in Indian Art c12.s7.1

c12.s7.1

On railing pillar No. J. 7 in the Mathura Museum is carved the figure of a boy (Pl. XI) which Dr. J. Ph. Vogel has described in his *Catalogue of the Mathura Museum* :—"a male figure of Faun-like appearance with elaborate turban, necklace of beads and other ornaments. He is standing under a mango tree in blossom with his right hand raised to his lips, and with his left placed against his thigh. He wears a sash round his waist and a curious necklace round his shoulders. Over the tree is a balcony without figures." Writing later about the same image in his book *La Sculpture de Mathurā* Dr. Vogel identifies this figure as that of a young man, probably a Yaksha, of a fashionable type. He also suggests that its pose resembles that of Harpokrates found at Taxila by Sir John Marshall (p. 102, Pl. XXI, fig. (b); see *Archaeological Survey Report*, 1912-13, Pl. XX, figs. f, g, h, for the statuette of Harpokrates).