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Mankuwar Buddha Image of the Time of Kumaragupta I

An image of a seated Buddha, "very perfect … with a headdress like that now worn by the Abbots in Bhutân. It is a plain cap, fitting close to the head, with long lappets on each side. The figure is naked to the waist, and clad below in a dhoti which reaches to the ankles. The eyes are half closed, as if in meditation." (#Cunningham_1880a:6). No dimensions reported.

Object URI
OB00027
History details
Originally found (according to #Cunningham_1880a:7) in a brick mound, probably the site of a Buddhist monastery, to the northeast of Maṅkuār (14.5 km southwest of Arail in Allahabad District of UP), between five rocky hillocks called Pañc-pahāṛ. Moved from there to a garden belonging to the Gosāī of Deoriyā. Discovered in 1870 by Bhagwanlal Indraji (it is not clear whether Indraji found it in the mound or in the garden).
Created
Place
Deoriyā
Recorded
Place
Deoriyā
Date
1870
Stored
Place
State Museum, Lakhnau
Date
1983

Mankuwar Buddha Image Inscription of the Time of Kumaragupta I

Inscription URI
IN00029
Extent
48 cm width x 4.5 cm height
Decoration
Between the two lines of text at the top and bottom of the pedestal, there is a carved wheel in the centre, "with a man seated in meditation on each side, and a lion at each corner" (#ASIR_10:6).
Edition
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