Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c8.s2.119

c8.s2.119

Comparing the bronze figure from Sāgardighi with the stone image of Sonarang we find that, though the figure of the Dhyānī Buddha Amitābha is wanting in the former, a good deal of similarity exists in the emblems held by these two figures. They hold the makara, the mace, the garuḍadhvaja, the lotus and the wheel in common. The objects held in the hands of the Ghiyasabad figure have not been correctly described in Anderson's Catalogue and Handbook. In the majority of cases the symbols were placed on fully blossomed lotus flowers, the stalks of which were actually held by the hands. This particular arrangement seems to have been common in the northern part of Rāḍhā. Ghiyasabad lies within a few miles of Sāgardighi and the similarity between these two specimens is therefore easily explained. The symbols held in the hands of the Ghiyasabad figure are:—