The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.20
The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.20
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II. — *Statue of Bodhisattva, obtained from Shâhbâz-Garhî, at present in the museum of the Louvre* (cf. p. 132). With its costume formed of two pieces of material, one for the trunk and the other for the lower limbs, with its turban, its sandals, its rich adornments, and finally its nimbus, this statue represents that ideal type of the great lay noble which in India serves for kings and gods. (For a heliogravure and a detailed description of this particular one cf. *Sculptures gréco-bouddhiques du Musée du Louvre* in *Monuments et Mémoires*, vol. VII, part I, 1900). On the pedestal is represented the worship of Buddha's alms-bowl.