A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c10.s2.11
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c10.s2.11
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Museum, excavated from the ruins of a monastery at Sikrī in 1889, which is the most notable known example of the treatment of a repulsive subject. It depicts the Master as he sat at Bodh-Gayā making the vain attempt to attain by the severest austerity that supreme knowledge which did not come to him, according to the story, until he abandoned the practice of self-torture (Fig. 61).¹ The subject is sometimes treated by Chinese and Japanese artists in another fashion, as may be seen in the South Kensington Museum and the Musée Guimet. The Brahmanical parallel is Plate XXVIII. Kuvera in form of Zeus.