Mathura: Life of the Buddha - Calming the Drunken Elephant
Red sandstone
降伏醉象圖
印度北方邦秣菟羅布台薩爾遺址出土
印度北方邦秣菟羅（Mathura, Uttar Pradesh）布台薩爾遺址（Bhuteshwar）出土。原為圍欄柱上的浮雕裝飾，以三個區間扼要地表現出提婆達多放出醉象企圖加害佛陀，結果瘋狂的醉象反被佛陀調伏。最下層的畫面裡醉象用鼻子倒吊起一男子。中間的畫面，醉象屈膝跪拜於佛陀面前，上方人群見狀驚訝讚歎不絕。最上層的畫面，佛陀與一合掌人物各自立於樹的兩側。
該作品盡可能以最少的登場人物，從下到上按時間順序分階段敘事的構圖，類似犍陀羅的佛傳表現手法，與桑奇及南印度重視故事的發生地點、一圖多景的表現手法完全不同。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 700.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mathura: Life of the Buddha - Calming the Drunken Elephant." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 700.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Mathura: Life of the Buddha - Calming the Drunken Elephant" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:700.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Mathura: Life of the Buddha - Calming the Drunken Elephant. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 700).
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