Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s5.58

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There are some other types of images to be noted. For example, (1) Bodhisattva Maitraya (future Buddha) of whom several examples are found in the Kushāṇa art, is represented in a standing posture, holding his right hand in *abhayamudrā* and an *amṛtaghṭa* (nectar flask or monk's bottle) in the left. For all practical purposes its iconographic formula is as that of the main type of the standig Bodhisattva images but the images are generally smaller in size and not very heavily built. [Fig. 149]. (2) Images of Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara are very rare in Mathura art. (3) Images of Kāśyapa Buddha have also been found. He was one of the seven Mānuṣī Buddhas but depicted independently of his companions. [Fig. 150]. Seven Mānuṣī Buddhas have already been depicted in the art of Sanchi, each having his distinct Bodhi tree. That tradition was continued in the Kushāṇa art of Mathura.