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The Indian Historical Quarterly March 1943

1943

The Mahiwastu account is perhaps the earliest authrity for the Earth-touching gesture" (bhitni-spar!sa-mudra) plastically rendered in the iconography of the image of which the earliest sculptural rendering occurs in the images of the Amarivatt and the Gindhira School. [...] In one of the images in 'earth-touching gesture' of the Gupta period (?) dug up at Sarnath on the pedestal half the figure of the Earth Goddess is depicted as emerging from the surface of the earth carrying a vessel (kalasa) of sacred water. [...] It is the accumulated merit of the great gifts the great sacrifices of the Buddha (or in the words of Mara's elephant Giri-mekhala "the uttermost gift given by thee Siddhartha") collected in the bosom of the Earth in the shape of the waters of the donative rituals poured from the ritual vessel (4bhisekkumbha). [...] Then Lady Vasundhara being unable to hold herself by the sense of appreciation of the weight of spiritual treasures of the Bodhisattva came forth from beneath the Earth aitcl assuming the common form of women placed herself in front of the Bodhsattva said: 'Respected Super-Man! I know of the magnitude of thy (spiritual) riches the tresses of my hair are saturated with the rituawater of [...] Another curious development of the form of the Earth-Goddess in Greater India consists in the fact that while in India in the examples so far gives an English version of 'a life of the Buddha' derived from Siamese sources has rendered the story in the following words : And the angel of the earth unable to resist his invocation sprang from the earth in the shape of a lovely woman with long flow
history
Pages
118
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120027
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii Narendra Law view
The Earth Goddess in Buddhist Art
1-11 O.C. Gangoly view
Kalaikuri Copper—Plate Inscription of the Gupta Year 120 (A.D. 439)
12-26 unknown view
The Dynastic Chronicles of Kashmir
27-38 U.N. Ghoshal view
Shuja-ud-daula as a Diplomat (1754-65)
39-49 A.F.M. Rahman view
Lassen on Fictitious and Apocryphal Reports Concerning India
50-61 A. Banerji-Sastri view
Some Notes on the History of the Fig—Does the word “Phalgu used by Caraka and Sulruta mean “ Aftjira ”?
62-65 P.K. Gode view
A hitherto-unknown Version of the Simhāsanadvātrimsika
65-67 Chintaharan Chakravarty view
Was Ciraffjiva ’s Patron a Gond ?
68-68 Dasharatha Sharma view
Was Karna Caulukya either defeated or killed by the Cāhamāna ruler Durlabharāja
68-69 Dasharatha Sharma view
Subandhu
69-72 V. Raghavan view
Date of the Ratirahasya
72-73 V. Raghavan view
The Amarakosavyākhyā of Bommaganti Appayārya
73-78 V. Raghavan view
Helārāja not a Disciple of Bhartrhari
79-82 K.Madhava Sarma view
Reviews
83-91 Chintaharan Chakravarti view
Select Contents of Oriental Journals
92-97 Chintaharan Chakravarti view
Bibliographical Notes
98-99 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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