Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.213

c7.213

the Bodhisattva representing creative science,¹ dispelling ignorance with his uplifted sword of knowledge! This is from a gilt copper statuette in the Calcutta Art Gallery, which is interesting as an historical landmark, for the inscription on it in Nepalese shows that it was made to commemorate the death of a learned *pandit* and dedicated to a Nepalese shrine in the year A.D. 1782.² It has all the fine sentiment and decorative skill of the older work, although the technique, more especially in the modelling of the lower limbs, is perfunctory, and cannot compare with some of the earlier examples already illustrated.