Mathura: Makara and Naga King
Sandstone
摩竭魚及龍王像
印度北方邦秣菟羅松克出土
印度北方邦秣菟羅松克（Sonkh, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh）出土。該浮雕石板可能是塔門橫梁裝飾，以摩竭魚及龍王為主題。摩竭魚占據了畫面的大部分空間，前肢融合鯨頭、象鼻、鱷魚口、獅爪、魚鰭等特徵，魚身卷曲成圈，淺刻鱗片及長弧形魚尾，構成優美的圖案。圖右龍王現人形，袒上身，帔帛繞左肩垂至地上，右手當胸，左手上舉，重心落左腳，伸右腳探入摩竭魚口中。
神獸摩竭魚象徵生命力與愛欲，在秣菟羅自古以來一直是深受人們喜愛的裝飾圖案。龍王則為眼鏡蛇神格化的神祇，為生命力與財富的象徵，很早就是印度民間流行的信仰。兩者後來皆被佛教吸收為吉祥獸和守護神，並成為佛教藝術中常見的圖像。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 702.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mathura: Makara and Naga King." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 702.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Mathura: Makara and Naga King" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:702.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Mathura: Makara and Naga King. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 702).
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