Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c8.s2.121

c8.s2.121

It is therefore clear that the Ghiyasabad image belongs to the same genus as the specimens from Sonarang and Sāgardighi. The date of the specimen from Sāgardighi can be fixed from the votive inscriptions on its back, according to which it was dedicated by a person named Pānō, the son of a preacher named Nānnōdāsa. The characters belong to the eleventh century A.D. and are later than those used in the inscriptions of Mahīpāla I. This particular class of specimens, therefore, indicates a blending of the older Bhāgavata class of Vaishṇava images and the Lokeśvaras of the later Mahāyāna school of Buddhism.