The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c13.s1.9
The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c13.s1.9
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Yet another small point is that the deva, if deva he is, at the right-hand top corner is provided with an uṣṇīṣa (or with a top-knot exactly resembling an uṣṇīṣa) on the crown of his head. I mention this detail only because a theory, quite unsubstantiated, has been advanced that figures with the uṣṇīṣa must be either the Buddha himself or a sort of spiritual double of the Buddha, which this adoring figure clearly is not.