A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s2.52
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c11.s2.52
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A Bodhisattva in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (Fig. 94), is a good sample of the more usual Mathurā type of the Buddhist saint, akin to the ‘royal personages’ of Gandhāra art, and very different in spirit from the seated image. It is almost a duplicate of an image found at Sārnāth.¹ No attempt is made to idealize the human form, which is treated naturalistically and without exaggeration.