Buddhist art in India : translated from the 'Handbuch' of Albert Grünwedel (1901)
Grünwedel, Albert, 1856-1935 · London : B. Quaritch · leaf 132
REPRESENTATION OF THE NIRVANA. 2 couch, holding up his right hand in dismay and grief at the demise ofthe Master whom he had constantly followed to protect. The relief from Natthu (ill. 74) is almost a copy of this. The representations of this subject differ in minor details, but the general… … of the copies of this scene we find these,—(1) the small figure of an ascetic seated in front of the couch on which the dying Säkyamuni lies; (2) Vajrapazi—the bearer of the vajra; (3) a naked figure close by; (4) the Sala trees, between which the couch was placed, usually with the Tree Spirits…
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