Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c7.263.4

c7.263.4

In less elaborate images the Master is represented as standing under an umbrella, with his hands in the varada-mudrā, indicating the incident of the descent at Saṅkāśya. The hands of the main figure in stelæ No. C(c)1 ⁶ of the Baṅgīya Sāhitya Parishad collection and No. 3766⁷ of the Indian Museum collection are broken, but as in both cases the incidents of the mad elephant and the robbers are separately represented, it can be safely stated that the main figures, in these two stelæ, represent the Master as descending from the heaven of the thirty-three gods.