The Development of Hindu Iconography c19.s6.20

c19.s6.20

¹ N. G. Majumdar, ‘A New Type of Viṣṇu from North Bengal’, Modern Review, February, 1929; Appendices to Annual Report of V. R. Society, 1928-29, pp. 15-7 and plate. K. C. Sarkar suggested that this type really represented a Bodhisattva; V. R. Society’s Monograph, No. 4, pp. 18-23 and plate. But none of them is correct; the figure really stands for a syncretistic image of Viṣṇu-Lokeśvara or a Viṣṇu-Śiva-Lokeśvara.