Image: Bodhisattva - Kushana - Circa 1st Century AD - Sravasti - Uttar Pradesh - Indian Museum - Kolkata 2012-11-16 1957

Description: The inscriptionSet-Mahet Bodhisattva Kanishka or Huvishka period. The sculpture was set up in Sravasti.Epigraphia Indica VIII. Indian Museum, Calcutta The inscription reads: "In the ..... th year of the Maharaja, the Devaputra Kanishka (or Huvishka?) in the ....th month of ...... on the 10th day, on the date specified above, a Bodhisattva, an umbrella and a stick, the gift of the monk Bala, who knows the Tripitaka, a companion of the monk Pushya(vriddhi), (have been set up) at Sravasti, at the place where the Lord (ie Buddha) used to walk, in the Kosambakuti, at the property of the teachers of the school of Sarvastivadins." Epigraphia Indica VIII p.181Another viewPhotographed in the archeology gallery of Indian Museum, Kolkata.
Title: Bodhisattva - Kushana - Circa 1st Century AD - Sravasti - Uttar Pradesh - Indian Museum - Kolkata 2012-11-16 1957
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