Buddha

A stele statue depicting the Buddha. The Buddha is standing on a base showing a cornice decorated with a festoon. On the front face, an open flame palmette with tuft is carved between two semi-columns of the Gandharan-Corinthian type with a flute on the shaft. On both sides is a full-blown lotus with one corolla. The Buddha was in abhayamudrā, while the left hand held an edge of the saṃghāti. The drapery is rendered in dense rounded ridges falling in thick U-shaped folds. The uttarāsāṅga and the antaravāsaka hang in vertical pipe folds. The face is round and the neck shows two lines. He has half-closed eyes, arched eyebrows, a circular ūrṇā in relief, and a small mouth. The hair is parted in the middle with lateral, continuous waves. The uṣṇīṣa is not separate. The head is against a nimbus featuring a border of triangles with two parallel lines. The field is plain.