The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c15.37
The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c15.37
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c15.37
To judge by the shape of the *uṣṇīṣa* and the less schematic treatment of the hair, fig. 109 is somewhat later than the foregoing, but the evidence is not conclusive. The eyes are wide-open but not prominent, as in figs. 85 and 86, and the pupils are defined; the *ūrṇā* is higher up the forehead than in the preceding figure; round the base of the *uṣṇīṣa* is a double string of beads with a medallion in front. The head, which has lost its ears and halo, is made of talcose chloritic schist. It came from the Moḥrā Morādu Monastery at Taxila.