The Development of Hindu Iconography c14.35

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² Kumārasambhava, III, 41: Latāgṛhadvāragato'tha Nandī vāmaprakoṣṭhār-pitahemavetraḥ | Mukhārpitaikāṅgulisamjñayaiva mā cāpalāyeti gaṇān vyanaisīt. For the Harpocrates figure, cf. Marshall, A Guide to Taxila, p. 79, Pl. XV; according to him, it is a late Hellenistic work. Vögel identified the Ṛṣyaśṛṅga figure as probably a Yakṣa of a fashionable type,' suggesting that its pose resembled that of Harpocrates (Ars Asiatica, Vol. XV, p. 102), but this suggestion was rightly challenged by Agrawala and Upadhyay. For the Khajuraho Viṣṇu, see J. I. S. O. A., Vol. I, p. 103, Pl. XXX.