Indian Sculpture c5.s1.t3.8

c5.s1.t3.8

Thus, for instance, an elephant and a female figure may be given about the same size when the elephant is the Buddha to be born and the woman’s figure that of his future mother, Queen Māyā (Fig. 21). But an elephant, again, need not be larger than a lotus flower, where both of them are but the indispensable surroundings of the comparatively gigantic figure of the goddess Lakṣmī (Fig. 31).