The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.200

c9.200

This time the two divine attendants are seated on rattan seats. The one on the (Buddha's) right has, unfortunately, his face and left hand broken; his feet are crossed in an attitude often reproduced later in China and Japan. The turbaned attendant on the left, leaving his sandal on the ground (cf. *Arch. Surv. Rep.*, 1903-1904, pl. LXVIII, *b* and *c*), has bent up his right leg and must, as on plate XXV, 2, have rested his forehead on his hand, while at the same time he holds in his left the same looped object as does the right-hand attendant on plate XXIV, 2, — from the analogy of some newly discovered statues we should guess a bending purse.