Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.89

c7.89

feeling as the earlier art. It is distinguished by the graceful conventionalisation of the bo-tree—the tree of wisdom—disposed as a wreath round the figure of the Bodhisattva, who holds in his left hand the *amrita*, or nectar of immortality. At the foot of the pedestal are the quaint figures of the three devotees who have dedicated this image to some Nepalese shrine.