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A Unique Bodhisatta head from Mathura
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8. Agrawala, V. S., op. cit. pp. 141-144. 9. Ibid., p. 143. 10. Donated by Shri Anand Moban Bajpai, Mathura
The author is thankful to Shri O. P. Tandon, O. S. D., Bharat
Kala Bhavan for his permission to publish this sculpture. 11. Bhattacharya, B., op. cit. p. 49. 12. Ibid., p. 143. 13. Ibid. 14. Bhattacharya opins “... ...his image can be traced from the
Gupta period ogward” (Ibid). 15. Grunwedel, Albert, Buddhist Art in India, (Reprint, Varanasi,
1974), p. 191. 16. Bodhisattva images identified as Avalokitesvara have been
ascribed to ca. 3rd 4th century A. D. (ingholt, H. Gandharan
Art in Pakistan, New York, 1957, nos. 313-317). 17. Getty, Alice. op. cit., p. 58 18. Fabian and Hian Tsang mention the worship of Manjusri,
Avalokiseśvara and Maitreya. It-siog also mentions their worship besides other cult images. These work indicate the popularity and worship of Avalokitesvara and others. But in the early work of Ašvaghoşa (ca. Ist Century A. D.) and that of Nagarjuna (ca. 2nd century A.D.), we do not find any mention about the concept of five Dhyaoi Buddha and that of the Bodbisattva either. (Agrawala. V. S op cit., p. 140).
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