Hariti and Panchika, Taxila, Museum
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Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
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Here the god and goddess appear together as they most often did in Ghandaran art, As a tutelary couple, Panchika was sometimes shown with a purse and Hariti with a cornucopia denoting their gifts of prosperity and fertility to mankind, In our slide, the goddess is overtly a reference to fertility for she is surrounded by a number of children, House-holders in Ghandara would have had statuary groups like this one in their homes to invoke the graces of the deities, The same lively quality and humanistic touches present in the fragment of the Buddha in slide 13 are at work in the Panchika-Hariti group, Richly executed carving and detailing are also implicit,
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circa 1970s
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This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
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