Mathura: Standing Buddha
Sandstone
Mathura: Standing Buddha
INDIA, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura
The sculpture was unearthed from Govind Nagar in Mathura. The headless statue can be identified as the Buddha due to a number of features, such as the webbing visible between the fingers of the right hand, which is in abhaya (fearlessness) mudra. The left hand holds the hem of the monastic robe that covers both shoulders. This very subtly reveals the sturdy figure beneath and ripples over the body in a series of verticals and diagonals. The pleating where it overlaps the left wrist is particularly detailed. The figure stands on a square pedestal and between the outspread feet there is a lotus.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 707.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mathura: Standing Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 707.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Mathura: Standing Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:707.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Mathura: Standing Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 707).
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