Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s2.5
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s2.5
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3. Seated alabaster male figure with the head broken; 11" high; arrangement of the lower clothing shows it to be a *tahmad* or "a thin kilt-like garment secured round the waist, covered by a thin shawl over the left shoulder and under the right arm". On the back is a long lock of braided hair similar to the feminine *Veṇī*; of poor modelling; the squatting posture is somewhat similar to that of Wema Takshama statue.