Indian Sculpture c8.90

c8.90

41. Bodhisattva, from Katra mound, Mathurā. Late first century A.D. Curzon Museum, Mathurā. Red mottled sandstone. The graded relief with superimposed planes has volume and weight. Stereometricized limbs add monumentality, which is no excuse for the clumsiness of joints and hands. The right hand, in abhaya mudrā at this stage, is just above the level of the shoulders. In the course of time it is lowered gradually, until in the fifth century it is held about level with the waist (Fig. 59).