The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c12.54
The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c12.54
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c12.54
I. — The Hāritī on the left is erect and walking with little Pingala at her side. When we observe her frowning eyebrows, her angry features, her wide mouth garnished with its terrible row of teeth, her emaciated and withered bosom, her gesture of seizing prey, everything seems to express the primitive character of the ogress, reappearing under the customary mask of Buddhist serenity.