1919,0101,0.279.l

Description

Scope and content : Mi. xiii. 11–12. Pair of fresco panels from west wall of chamber behind temple cella (for position, see Pl. 53). The style and technique are those of the preceding series (1)–(9), and the colours the same with the addition of vermilion and a dull blue. The upper part of (12) is lost, but at bottom are seen the yellow band and red stone blocks as in (5)–(9). The background again is of maroon, sprinkled with yellow trefoils and large falling blossoms, red, dark green, and yellow. In (11), which in position corresponds to (1), only two figs. kneeling one above the other, ¾ to R., with hands in adoration. The upper is a monk, in short green robe lined with yellow, kneeling on a yellow Padmāsana, his knees bare. Head of same type as that of former monks; but it has become effaced and been very badly redrawn; eyes and eyebrows lowered, while nose is shortened. Traces of orig. features remain. Below is a haloed Bodhisattva with dull blue stole and pink halo; dress and fig. as in Mi. xiii. 1–2, head uplifted. Below him is a stone-edged tank (?), similar to the one seen in (12). (Cf. water-pools in 5–9.) The coping is of grey arched stones, with carmine border, and the water green. [Ser]