Mathura: Railing
Sandstone
佛塔欄楯浮雕
印度北方邦秣菟羅出土
印度北方邦秣菟羅（Mathura, Uttar Pradesh）出土。孔雀王朝（約321～185 BCE）滅亡之後，秣菟羅處於巽伽王朝（約187～75 BCE）的統治之下，不久又為地方政權所控制，此浮雕殘片屬於這一時期之作品。
圖左側立柱雕有聖樹與圍欄，右側立柱上中下各雕有一圓形圖像，分別為蓮花、法輪及翼獅；兩立柱之上、下端均已損毀。橫列二柱間之貫石，立面浮雕一綻放的蓮花。作品之浮雕風格稚拙，與巴爾胡特及桑奇二號塔浮雕風格接近。
秣菟羅的欄柱實為少見，從該遺例的圖像表現看來，特別是象徵佛陀像之法輪和圍欄內的聖樹造型已是相當完整、美觀，應是佛像未產生之前，象徵藝術已臻完美的階段。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 703.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mathura: Railing." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 703.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Mathura: Railing" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:703.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Mathura: Railing. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 703).
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