Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t1.22

c5.s3.t1.22

Although the Bodhgayā ‘Buddha’ is the earliest image, in a truly spiritual sense, there must have been others made at the same time. The Buddha from Anurādhapura, Ceylon, near in date, is also not far from it in meaning. The Bodhgayā image is not a precursor. It belongs to the age that produced it to the same extent as the Sāñcī reliefs belonged to the first century B.C.