The Development of Hindu Iconography c19.s6.22

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¹ M. Ganguly, op. cit., pp. 139-40, Pl. XXVI; Ganguly's description of this image is open to criticism. Banerjee's observation about such images quoted below explains their real character: ‘This particular class of specimens, therefore, indicates a blending of the older Bhāgavata class of Vaiṣṇava images and the Lokeśvaras of the later Mahāyāna school of Buddhism’ (op. cit., p. 96).