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Back of the pillars with Buddhist reliefs (Indian Museum, Kolkata).The holes for the cross-bars can be seen in the sides. The Bhutesvara Yakshis, also spelled Bhutesar Yakshis, are a series of yakshi reliefs on a railing, dating to the 2nd century CE during the time of the Kushan Empire. [1]
The sculpture is now in the Bihar Museum in Patna, Bihar, India, [5] close to where it was found in 1917. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Patna, as Pataliputra , was also the Mauryan capital. The statue is 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 m) tall on a pedestal of 1 foot 7.5 inches (49.5 cm) made of Chunar sandstone highly finished to a mirror-like polish. [ 8 ]
The Amaravati school of Buddhist art was one of the three major Buddhist sculpture centres along with Mathura and Gandhara and flourished under Satavahanas, many limestone sculptures and tablets which once were plastered Buddhist stupas provide a fascinating insight into major early Buddhist school of arts.
Like all the locations of Buddhist caves, this one is located near main trade routes and spans six centuries beginning in the 2nd or 1st century B.C. [47] A period of intense building activity at this site occurred under the Vakataka king Harisena between 460 and 478 A profuse variety of decorative sculpture, intricately carved columns and ...
Salabhanjika, Hoysala era sculpture, Belur, Karnataka, India. A salabhanjika or shalabhanjika is a term found in Indian art and literature with a variety of meanings. In Buddhist art, it means an image of a woman or yakshi next to, often holding, a tree, or a reference to Maya under the sala tree giving birth to Siddhartha (Buddha). [1]
Most of these sculptures depicts the Hindu deity called Vishnu. Many of them also depict the deities namely Durga , Brahma , Ganesha and others. Mahishamardini figure from Sarsabaz, Bogra , now in the Mahasthangarh Museum is the most magnificent early image of the deity not only from Bangladesh but from the Indian Subcontinent .
The site of Devni Mori included numerous terracotta Buddhist sculptures (but no stone sculptures), also dated to the 3rd-4th century CE, and which are among the earliest sculptures that can be found in Gujarat. [2] The remains are located in the Shamlaji Museum and Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery. [6]
Of other Buddhist remains, there is a life-size standing Bodhisattva and a delicate image of the Bodhisattva with a lotus, and yet another bronze sculpture showing the Bodhisattva with multiple arms. The museum at Sarnath also houses a collection of figures and sculptures from the Mauryan, Kushana, and Gupta periods.