Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c16.18

c16.18

Another specimen allied both in type and ornamentation was found at Kosam and is in the Allahabad Municipal Museum (5" × 3¾"). It is undoubtedly a male figure although wearing the same type of conspicuous ornaments. Its hands hang by the side between two lotuses springing from below. A wing preserved at the back of the right shoulder connects it with a winged Cupid type. [Fig. 230]. In Indian mythology Kāmadeva is believed to be the son of Lakshmī and this may explain the intimate association of this figure with lotuses, its formal affinity with the Śrī-Lakshmī type. cf. the specimen at Tilaurakot