The University of Nalanda c12.47

c12.47

We may compare with the above—a peculiar figure from Nālandā—Samantabhadra or Kṣitigarbha. "It is a Bodhisattva sitting with his right leg folded, the left knee being raised and fastened to the waist by means of the shawl which usually is carried round the upper part of the body. The right arm is broken at the elbow, the left holds a stalk or branch with three ramifications ending in buds or jewels''.¹