Swat: Life of the Buddha - Birth of Prince Siddhartha
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七步生蓮圖
巴基斯坦西北邊境省斯瓦特出土
巴基斯坦開伯爾巴圖克瓦省斯瓦特（Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa）出土。據《佛本行集經》卷八記載，悉達多太子降生時，即向四方各行七步，以示其為世上無與倫比之聖者。此浮雕即描述此段佛傳故事內容。
畫面以古希臘科林斯式（Corinthian）柱分隔，中央帶頭光童子立像即是悉達多太子。太子左邊為帝釋天，戴頭巾，身著王侯服飾，手持金剛杵；右為梵天，束髮，持寶瓶，作婆羅門裝束。梵天後方男子右手高舉，左手撫胸，神情恭謹驚歎。
太子正後方的侍從頭部已損毀，依稀可見其右手持拂子，左手擎傘蓋，但上方的傘蓋幾乎完全損毀。拂子與傘蓋是古印度正統王室所用之物，象徵太子的王族身分。帝釋天背後原刻有二人，皆已殘損。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1180.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Swat: Life of the Buddha - Birth of Prince Siddhartha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1180.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Swat: Life of the Buddha - Birth of Prince Siddhartha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1180.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Swat: Life of the Buddha - Birth of Prince Siddhartha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1180).
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