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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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long ago, but the curls indicating the manes falling over the fore
part of the bodies were still clearly recognisable.
In the top layer of the sand which covered the south-eastern
corner of the cella (shown by the photograph reproduced on p. 289),
were found numerous small relievos in stucco, from 5 to 8 in.
high, representing Buddhas or Bodhisattvas with the right hand
raised in the attitude of teaching. The robes of these figures
are painted reddish brown, the orthodox colour for the garb of
Indian monks, while their heads are surrounded by halos in a light
green shade. Some specimens were still attached to portions of
a hard stucco ground, decorated in relievo with elaborate wreaths
and rosettes and gaily coloured. It was evident that all these
pieces once belonged to plaques which, perhaps in the form of large
halos, had adorned the uppermost part of the walls in this corner.
The fact of these fragments being found in loose sand, several feet
above the platform already referred to, is a clear indication that the
interior of the little shrine had been invaded by the drift-sand while
its walls were still intact to a considerable height.
Comparatively well protected as this south-eastern portion of the
cella was, the stucco image which once occupied the corner had
decayed, just as in the case of the other three corners, down to the
feet. These, however, as well as the elegantly moulded lotus-
pedestal of circular shape, can still be made out in the photograph.
Luckily this corner had afforded better protection for some other
adornments of the shrine. On clearing the platform between the
corner pedestal and the base of the principal statue, I found a
small detached statue in stucco about 1½ ft. high and well preserved
but for the head and arms. The photograph shows it placed
subsequently on the main base. The seated figure represented in
it must, by evidence of the carefully indicated dress, have been
intended for a Buddha or Bodhisattva. The colour of the robe, a
reddish brown, has survived very well. The small wooden board
on which the image had been set up, evidently for the purpose of
convenient transport, was still intact, and as the stucco too had
kept comparatively hard I was able to risk its removal. Care-
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