A NEPALESE PARTLY GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF MANJUSRI, seated in rajalilasana on a lotus, his right arm resting on his raised right knee, the left resting on a separate cast lotus and holding the stem of a lotus, flowering along his left side and supporting the pustaka, another lotus raising from the lotus-base and flowering along his right shoulder, wearing dhoti, many bodhisattva-ornaments, upavita, his face with downcast expression, urna, his elongated earlobes with pierced circular earrings, sankhapatras and high makuta set with a glass-bead, sealed, 12th Century
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A NEPALESE PARTLY GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF MANJUSRI, seated in rajalilasana on a lotus, his right arm resting on his raised right knee, the left resting on a separate cast lotus and holding the stem of a lotus, flowering along his left side and supporting the pustaka, another lotus raising from the lotus-base and flowering along his right shoulder, wearing dhoti, many bodhisattva-ornaments, upavita, his face with downcast expression, urna, his elongated earlobes with pierced circular earrings, sankhapatras and high makuta set with a glass-bead, sealed, 12th Century
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