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印度北方邦秣菟馬霍利村附近發現

印度北方邦秣菟羅馬霍利村(Maholi, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh)附近發現。該像為圓雕,頭、腹滾圓,整體形象短小肥壯,表現非常可愛有趣,顯示出印度傳統的藥叉造像風格。卷曲的螺髮,右旋與左旋相互交錯。粗眉大眼,髭鬚上翹,滿臉笑意。頭部直接連接胸部,不見頸項,佩戴花環狀項圈和大耳環。右腿盤屈,豎左膝,左膝與腹部以一條飾帶纏繞。
 藥叉頭頂與雙臂殘損,但頭頂仍可見鑿有凹槽,因與秣菟羅高文德那卡(Govind Nagar)出土的持鉢藥叉像為同類作品,故推測其頭頂原應置有一鉢,雙臂當為上舉,作捧鉢狀。原為一對造像,被安置在窣堵波或寺院入口處的兩側,作為守護的用途。藥叉造像到了笈多王朝(約320~550)逐漸盛行。

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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author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Lovelock, Yann and Chou, Yuan and Huntington, Susan and Edson, Gary and Neather, Robert,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M},
pages = 692,
title = {{Mathura: Dwarf}},
volume = 11,
year = {2016}}


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