Buddhist art in India : translated from the 'Handbuch' of Albert Grünwedel (1901)
Grünwedel, Albert, 1856-1935 · London : B. Quaritch · leaf 123
10162 BUDDHA'S MOTHER. in this relief a chémara is represented above the head of Brahma. Sakra and other gods were also present. This sculpture is about 18 inches high. On the relief shown in ill.64 an ancient Nike type has supplied the prototype for the figure of Maya Another repre- sentation also… … This mode of representation of Gautama’s mother continues in later art. The Tibetan figure sketched in No. 66, so far as the Maya is concerned, rests distinctly on the Gändhära form; but in later Indian reliefs (as at Amarävati, Fergusson, Tree and Serp. Wor. pll.Ixv and xci) the Maya looks exactly…
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