Mathura: King Kaniska
Red sandstone
迦膩色迦王像
印度北方邦秣菟羅馬特村出土
印度北方邦秣菟羅（Mathura, Uttar Pradesh）馬特村（Mat）出土。該像頭部和兩臂已損，當初應為通高2公尺以上的巨大造像。
王身穿遊牧民族的束腰長袍，外披厚重外套，足蹬長靴，足尖朝向兩側，挺然直立，造型極為剛直威嚴。右手扶末端雕有摩竭魚的權杖，左手緊握飾忍冬紋的寶劍，充分顯示出中亞地區獷烈剽悍遊牧民族領袖的堂堂威儀。
雕像外套與內袍底部橫向銘刻一行佉盧文（Kharosthi），意為「大王、王中之王、天子、迦膩色迦」，銘文同時沿用了印度、波斯、中國帝王的稱號。整尊雕像幾乎都由硬直的線條構成，其肖像風格直接影響了秣菟羅貴霜王朝（約1〜3世紀）佛像的造型。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 695.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mathura: King Kaniska." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 695.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Mathura: King Kaniska" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:695.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Mathura: King Kaniska. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 695).
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