Bihar: Mora Jataka
Schist
孔雀本生圖
印度比哈爾邦出土
印度比哈爾邦（Bihar）出土。此石刻嵌板內容雕刻兩隻孔雀側身面向一人，此人屈膝而跪，雙手合掌，表情謙恭，似乎正虛心向孔雀請益。一般推測可能是孔雀本生圖，表現菩薩化現孔雀形象教化國王。孔雀本生事見南傳《本生經》第一五九則。
從藝術角度來看，此石刻構圖樸素，孔雀姿態高雅，造型傳達自然寫實的概念。圖像風格反映出九至十世紀波羅王朝（Pala，約8～12世紀）比哈爾菩提伽耶地區雕刻的典型特徵。該圖在藝術史上意義深重，為波羅王朝遺存的兩件本生故事雕刻之一。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 151.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Bihar: Mora Jataka." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 151.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Bihar: Mora Jataka" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:151.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Bihar: Mora Jataka. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 151).
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