Indian Sculpture c9.31

c9.31

This type survived not only in later Yakṣa statues (Maṇibhadra, from Pawāyā, Gwālior, about the beginning of the Christian era Bachhofer, op. cit., Pl. 62), but it underlies also the images of Bodhisattvas of Mathurā in the Kuṣāṇa period; cf. Coomaraswamy, *Yakṣas*, *Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection*, Vol. 80, No. 6, p. 29. It further protracts a transformed existence in the cult-images (pratimā) of later date, which are shown in samapadasthānaka, i.e. rigidly in front view.