SEATED BUDDHA FROM KATRA TILA

 SEATED BUDDHA FROM KATRA TILA

This is a typical example of the Mathura style of Buddha from Katra Tila having the foreign influence of the Kushan period. It is carved in red sandstone. The Buddha sits in padmasana, the round face has the same smiling and friendly expression with inner beauty and spirituality in the smile. The curly hair forms a tuff on the top of the head. Behind the Buddha’s head is a round halo decorated with hemispheres. 

The left shoulder is covered with a multi-folded drapery, treated as a system of strings and ridges. The right hand of the statue is in Aashirvadmudra. The seat of Buddha is shaped as an altar with ridges which is supported by three lions of whom two on the corners are in profile while the central one is in front looking face. Two attendants stand on either side as an early example of representing three figures together. Earlier the two attendants were thought to be Indra and Brahma but later they were identified as Boddhisatva, Vajrapani, and Padmapani.  Now it is a collection of Museum of Archaeology, Mathura.

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