Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c8.s2.107

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c8.s2.107

This particular group of Buddhist images is connected with another group of stone and metal images which appear to be a blending of the Lokeśvara and the Viṣṇu. Four specimens of this particular class have been discovered in different parts of Bengal. The earliest of them is in stone and was discovered at Ghiyasabad near Azimganj in the Murshidabad District of Bengal some time before 1853, and is described by Anderson in the following words:—

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