The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.189

c9.189

Analogous parasols, on the stele seen only in profile, shelter his two acolytes. Standing, with their hands broken off, they bear between their eyebrows the mark of the *ūrṇā*, which is regarded as a characteristic of Bodhisattvas; but at the same time, according to the customs of the school (cf. above, p. 175), the rich turban of the one on the right of Buddha designates Indra, as the hair-knot of the one on the left does Brahmā.