History of Indian and Indonesian Art c8.s2.65

c8.s2.65

Sārnāth: (10) colossal standing Bodhisattva, B (a) 1 in the Sārnāth Museum (fig. 83) dedicated by Friar Bala in the third year of Kaniṣka (123 A. D.), with a richly carved umbrella, lion between the feet, and traces of original colouring, a magnificent and powerful figure, perhaps the finest of the group, and with no. 1, the most important⁵; (11) headless Bodhisattva of similar type now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta⁶. The two last similar to no. 7.