Chunda
Twelve-armed Buddhist female deity Chunda is seated in lalitasana on a double lotus seat (mahambujapitha). The two main hands are in dhyana mudra, on which a bowl is placed. In her left hand, the first upper left has a lotus with the book, and the second upper left holds a serpent. The first lower left holds a kamandalu, and the second lower left holds a noose. In her right hand, the first upper right holds an akshamala, and the second lower right holds a fruit. Besides the usual ornaments, the goddess wears chains passing like Channavira between and below the breasts with a pendant in the centre. There is a Buddha in an earth-touching posture in the middle of the upper portion of the back slab.
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DIMENSIONS/ SIZE
140 x 91 x 35 cm
GALLERY
Gallery A
REGION
Cuttack, Odisha
ACCESSION NO. / MUSEUM ID NO.
Arch 6500
TIME PERIOD
8th Century CE
MATERIAL
Khondalite (Laterite stone)
