Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 288
reeinches ; length of eye, three feet, eleven inches ; length of 1 Amida (Sanskrit Amtfdd/ia), a powerful deity dwelling in a lovelyparadise to the West. Originally Amida was an abstraction, the ideal ofboundless light. His image may be recognized by the halo (goko) sur-rounding not only the head… … THE DAIBUTSU 215 eye-brow, four feet, two inches; length of ear, six feet, sixinches ; length of nose, three feet, nine inches; width ofmouth, three feet, two inches ; height of bump of wisdom,two feet, four inches; curls (of which there are 830)height, nine inches ; diameter of curls, one foot;…
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