Buddhist art in India : translated from the 'Handbuch' of Albert Grünwedel (1901)
Grünwedel, Albert, 1856-1935 · London : B. Quaritch · leaf 130
REPRESENTATION OF THE NIRVANA. | 119 the sdrz; he carries a thick rod or staff,—sometimes it is repre- sented as a number of thin rods bound together (/fasces),—the upper end being thicker or broader than the shaft. Whoever he … may represent, he is deeply interested in the decease: can it be Käsyapa? The background of the compositions is almost always filled in by the traditional two sala trees of the little wood of Kusi-
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