The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c13.s2.5
The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c13.s2.5
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c13.s2.5
In fig. 75 the Buddha is listening to the prophecy of the Nāga king Kālika and his queen. The composition is formal and unimaginative but the workmanship is conscientious and refined, and the figures of the two Nāgas and of the *devas* above, who appear actually to be moving in flight through the air, are not lacking in grace and charm. Observe the conventional *śāla* trees in the background and the youthful *brahmacārin*-type of Vajrapāṇi—a type destined to become familiar in later sculpture.