1919,0101,0.79

Description

Scope and content : Remains of paper painting showing Buddha seated in adamantine pose on lotus; R. hand in vitarka-mudrā at breast, L. below it hanging downwards, thumb and second finger joined, and third and fourth fingers bent up. Dress, accessories, and colouring as in Buddhas of silk paintings, but work of roughest description. From flower floating in air on R. rises head and shoulders of man or child with hands in adoration. Head is shaven, but has two-eared bow of child’s head-dress (see Ch. lvii. 004) drawn in outline on forehead. Details throughout hardly recognizable owing to dirt. 1′ 8″ × 1′ 3″.