Mathura: Dwarf
Red sandstone
藥叉像
印度北方邦秣菟羅高文德那卡出土
印度北方邦秣菟羅高文德那卡（Govind Nagar, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh）出土。該圓雕藥叉像下半身已毀，頭部也有部分損壞。面圓，張目微笑，戴光滑無紋的項圈和腕釧，雙手高舉，持鉢置於頭頂，鉢身飾有蓮瓣紋樣。藥叉形象多變，此像尖尖的耳朵極為特殊，然尖耳從古印度就被視為藥叉的特徵之一。
根據秣菟羅與阿瑪拉瓦提的浮雕推測，此藥叉像原為一對造像，安置在窣堵波或寺院入口處的兩側，藥叉頭頂上的鉢可能用作置放花環、花、香料等供品。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 692.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mathura: Dwarf." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 692.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Mathura: Dwarf" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:692.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Mathura: Dwarf. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 692).
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