The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.37

c9.37

I. — « God and Goddess, seated facing us, booted and each with the left foot on a footstool. The god, on the right, is bearded, and wears a long tunic and a mantle; he holds in his right hand a naked sword, and with the other he leans on the iron of a mallet, the handle of which rests on the arm of his seat. The goddess, crowned with a tower, has a long tunic, which leaves her right shoulder and part of her breast bare; with her left hand she holds against her shoulder a horn of plenty, filled with fruits; with the other hand a slanting patera ».