Buddha and devotee

Part of a figured cornice depicting a buddha and a devotee. The base consists of a plain fillet, the cornice of a projecting band decorated with a row of a row of bordered original leaf-and-dart. The figured field shows a buddha and a devotee both under a round arch with carinated extrados and pendants. The remains of an identical arch can be seen on the extreme left. On the left, a buddha is sitting in padmāsana and dhyānamudrā. He is wrapped in the saṃghāti with covered hands and feet. On the right, a male devotee is crouching and turning towards the buddha. He has joined hands and wears a paridhāna, an uttarīya, and a turban. The cornice was encased between a vertical palmette in filleted frame, of which only that on the right is preserved. The same motif was carved on both the sides of the cornice as suggested by the scanty remains on the proper left face. The figures are separated by a framed semi-column of the Gandharan-Corinthian type.