Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s7.38
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s7.38
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(3) The third variety of Viṣṇu image in the Gupta period depicts him as Śeṣaśāyī Viṣṇu, i. e. the Viṣṇu sleeping on the Śeṣa. This was an iconographic representation by the symbolic sculptures of the cosmic legend of creation; Śeṣa representing the infinite or the absolute aspect of Brahman and Vishnu symbolising his relative manifestation as the universe in which He Himself pervades.¹