A KASHMIR BRONZE FIGURE OF DHANADA TARA

细节
A KASHMIR BRONZE FIGURE OF DHANADA TARA
LATE 10TH/EARLY 11TH CENTURY

Standing in slight tribhanga on a lotus-base, resting on a shaped pedestal, molded with a diminutive female adorant, holding akshamala and unidentified object, her principle hands in varadamudra and holding the lotus stem, flowering along her shoulder, both upper hands holding akshamala and pustaka, wearing diaphanous dhoti, mala, many body ornaments, her face with silver inlaid almond-shaped eyes, silver inlaid urna, three-leaf crown, the central leaf with the jina Amoghasiddhi, double flaming halo behind, the base with Sanskrit inscription reading pasaka ujalaknata, "The religious gift of the worshipper Ujalaknata", (top of halo broken)--10 5/8in. (26.5cm.) high
来源
Formerly on loan to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
出版
Larson, G. J., P. Pal and R. P. Gowan, In Her Image: The Great Goddess in Indian Asia and the Madonna in Christian Culture, Santa Barbara, 1980, no. 39
Pal, P., Bronzes of Kashmir, New York, 1975, no. 68
Pal, P., Kashmiri-Style Bronzes and Tantric Buddhism, in Annali dell'Instituto Orientale di Napoli, vol. 39, Naples, 1979, fig. 32
Pal, P., Art and Architecture of Ancient Kashmir, Bombay, 1989, pp. 93 and 94, fig. 20
Schroeder, U. von, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, pp. 128 and 129, no. 21E