Buddhas

Part of a relief depicting two buddhas each inside a city door. The figures are separated by a semi-column of the Gandharan-Persepolitan type with a bell-like capital and a modillion. The base was possibly plain. A rectangular section tenon is carved at the centre of the lower face and on the proper-left part of the top face. The back face shows marks of chisel. A city door of the Indian type is carved on the right. It features a pointed arch, intrados with joists, bunch of grapes pendants, and a jamb decorated with leaves of pipal. A buddha is standing frontal inside it. His right hand is in abhayamudrā, the left is holding an edge of the overrobe. The hair is rendered in vertical strands converging at the centre, with separate uṣṇīṣa held by a ring at its base. The nimbus is plain. He wears the saṃghāti leaving the right arm and shoulder exposed. The drapery folds are rendered in a dense pattern of lines. A similar city door is displayed on the left, but its jamb is decorated with a chequered grid with alternating relief squares. A buddha is sitting inside originally in dhyānamudrā. He has a moustache and a plain nimbus surrounded by an umbrella-shaped crown of an indistinct tree. He wears an uttarīya with drapery folds indicated by straight vertical lines.