Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c8.s2.81

c8.s2.81

Under the heading "Emanations of four Dhyānī Buddhas" Mr. Bhattacharyya describes a number of goddesses and we must close this section with a number of probable identifications. Mention must be made in this connection of an unique bronze image in the Indian Museum, with four heads and twelve arms which bears a very strong affinity to the Trailokya-vijaya and the Mahākāla classes (I. M. No. 4552). It represents a man standing in the posture of an archer (*pratyālīḍhapadam*) on the breast of a male and a female lying prostrate but not in actual *co-itus* as in the case of the Trailokya-vijaya in the Brahmanical monastery at Bodh Gaya.³ It agrees with the latter in the following points:—