Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s6.3
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s6.3
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The Mathura artists took as their prototype of Kubera the atlante pot-bellied dwarfs with uplifted hands serving as guhyakas or kīchakas at Bharhut and Sanchi and in the Western Indian caves. With a little change this form was developed into a typical figure of Kubera as a corpulent pot-bellied and squatting figure having a plump face with long moustaches and happy smile, holding a purse and a wine-cup. That may be described as a śreṣṭhin or a Mahājana type, and truly worthy of being worshipped as the god of wealth (dhanapati or vitteśa) living on mount Kailāsa.