Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.179

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and, while one left hand is making the symbolic sign of instruction, the corresponding right one is grasping the *vajra*, the thunderbolt. The original, which is in the Calcutta Art Gallery, is cast in copper, gilt and jewelled. The gilding and the flashes of ruby, turquoise, lapis lazuli, and crystal, give all these Nepalese and Tibetan images a warmth and richness hardly to be realised by those who are accustomed to the academic coldness of modern marble and bronze.