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Early Terracottas From Vaišāli
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Sri Lakşmi : Another fragmentary plaque shows the lower part of a female figure standing on a lotus pedestal.41 She places her right hand on the waist. A flowery band runs over the pudenda. Her feet is adorned with heavy anklets. She is usually identified as Sri Lakşmi.
Male Heads : Male Heads show either oval face and simple hair style42 or round face, wearing a turing a turban with a knot.48 The
comes close to evolved Kusāna heads and can be dated to the last part of the 1st cent. A. D.
Grotesque Heads : A Group of male head44 depicts exaggerated facial features with protruded eyes and nose. These are hand-modelled and characterised by the use of punched and applied decorations. The effect that they convey can be best expressed as grotesques Yakșa : ? Of iconographic interest is a 'fat, squatting male figure'. It is conspicuous by potbellied features and exposed genital. The head is decked with a pointed crown.45
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
Ibid pi. VE, 50, pl. XV, Fig. 1 VE, '58-62, pl. XLV, Fig. 4. lbid, pl. XLII. ASIAR. 1913-14, pl. XIIV e.
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