The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.166

c11.s1.166

On the next façade the central figure is an Avalokiteçvara with four arms (*ibid.*, I, p. 104, etc.). One of its right arms, which is broken, must have been lowered in the gesture of giving, whilst the other holds up a rosary. A pink lotus and a book adorn the left hands; the flagon of ambrosia rests upon another lotus on the same side. Two feminine attendants, doubtless forms of Târâ, worship him. In the Bodhisattvas figured on the two lateral panels the thunderbolt with which both are armed proclaims Vajrapâṇi.