Buddha

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This image was brought from the village Khadipada in Bhadrak district, a famous site of old Mahayanic school. The Buddha in Bhumisparsa mudra consists of mainly three separate blocks (at present broken into four parts), but it reveals a great success of plastic art with broad shoulders, long and round hands, smooth and fleshy chins. It has pronounced solidarity and weight. Unfortunately the left hand and the face are broken. Its slim waist and robust chest as well as the erect neck impart it a lion like vigour and. bears comparison with any other representation of Buddha of the same size and dimensions.

The representation of Buddha in Bhumisparsa mudra is very widely distributed in the spheres of Buddhist art in Odisha. This particular nose symbolises the attainment of Enlightenment.