Elements of Hindu Iconography v2.c16.67

v2.c16.67

There is a very close resemblance of the figure of Śiva on this Linga to that of a *yaksha* in the Śāñchi Stūpa, figured on page 36 of Grunwedel’s “Buddhist Art in India” (translated by Gibson and Burgess); the face, the ear and the ear-ornament, the arms and the ornaments thereon, the necklace the details of the workmanship of these jewels and the peculiar arrangement of the drapery, particularly the big folds that descend between the legs,—all these are exactly alike both in the image of Śiva on the Linga at Guḍimallam and in the picture of the *Yaksha* referred to above. The date of the sculpture represented in the latter picture has been fixed to be the second century B.C.*