Nagarjunakonda or Gummadidirru: Relief of the Descent from the Tushita (Tavatimsa) Heaven
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Rowland, Benjamin
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It seems likely that in origin the trinity motif stems [from] a literal representation, with the Buddha accompanied by the great god of the Brahmanic pantheon, It needed only a hieratic isolation of the three figures to produce the first conception of the trinity, It is only in Kushana reliefs, apparently under Gandharan influence, that Sakyamuni is depicted with the monastic robe covering the body, in these the drapery, conceived as a series of string-like ridges or in overlapping shingle-like pleats, is an evident imitation of the classical drapery of the Gandhara school,
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1953
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