Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c8.s3.35

c8.s3.35

In the second period of activity of the Eastern School of Mediæval Sculpture, *i.e.*, in the ninth and tenth centuries A.D., Buddhist Tāntrika images make their appearance for the first time. We find a larger number of Tārās and different forms of Bodhisattvas along with Vajra-Tārā⁵ and Mārīchī⁶. Minor deities, common to Buddhism and Hinduism, such as Kuvēra and Sarasvatī also make their appearance at the same time in Buddhist holy places, *e.g.*, I.M. No. 3917⁷ (Kuvēra) and the Dacca Museum image of Sarasvatī. But by far the greatest number of specimens produced by the artists of the Eastern School are Buddhas and Lōkanāthas or Lōkēśvaras, even in its second period of activity.