The Age of the Imperial Guptas c7.71

c7.71

A. D.), with four hands at Badami¹ in the sixth century, is to be found with the same number of hands in Gupta sculpture proper, *e.g.*, at Bhumra. Similarly in the case of Vaiṣṇava sculptures the image of Viṣṇu seated on the coils of the snake Ananta is to be found at Badami² and on the door lintel of the later Gupta temple at Deogadh but no where else in later times. Such images are not worshipped at the present day and very probably became obsolete after the close of the Gupta period.