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Kimbell seated Bodhisattva
("Year 4 of the Great King Kanishka")
("Year 4 of the Great King Kanishka")
Kimbell seated Bodhisattva with attendants, 131 CE, Mathura. Kimbell Art Museum
On the pedestal, Brahmi inscription:
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Maharajasya Kanishkasya Sam 4
"Year 4 of the Great King Kanishka"
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𑁕Maharajasya Kanishkasya Sam 4
"Year 4 of the Great King Kanishka"
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Mathura
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Location of the city of Mathura.The Kimbell seated Bodhisattva is a statue of a "bodhisattva" (probably the Buddha after his renunciation of princely life, but before his Enlightenment) from the art of Mathura, now in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The statue is dated to 131 CE, by an inscription recording its dedication in "Year 4 of the Great King Kanishka", since the date of the beginning of Kanishka's reign is thought to be 127 CE.[4] The Kimbell seated Bodhisattva belongs to the category of the "Seated Buddha triads", which can be seen contemporaneously in the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara and in the art of Mathura in the early Kushan period.[5]
- ^ "Seated Buddha with Two Attendants". kimbellart.org. Kimbell Art Museum.
- ^ "The Buddhist Triad, from Haryana or Mathura, Year 4 of Kaniska (ad 82). Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth." in Museum (Singapore), Asian Civilisations; Krishnan, Gauri Parimoo (2007). The Divine Within: Art & Living Culture of India & South Asia. World Scientific Pub. p. 113. ISBN 9789810567057.
- ^ Close-up image of the inscription of the Kimbell Bodhisattva in Fussman, Gérard (1988). "Documents épigraphiques kouchans (V). Buddha et Bodhisattva dans l'art de Mathura : deux Bodhisattvas inscrits de l'an 4 et l'an 8". Bulletin de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient. 77: 27, planche 2. doi:10.3406/befeo.1988.1739.
- ^ Bracey, Robert (2017). "The Date of Kanishka since 1960 (Indian Historical Review, 2017, 44(1), 1–41)". Indian Historical Review. 44: 1–41.
- ^ Rhie, Marylin M. (2010). Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 3: The Western Ch'in in Kansu in the Sixteen Kingdoms Period and Inter-relationships with the Buddhist Art of Gandhara. BRILL. p. 105, note 95. ISBN 978-90-04-18400-8.