Scenes from the Life of the Buddha: Adoration of the Buddha Dimpakara, Conception, Prophecy, Birth (architectural fragment) / Gandhara (ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
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- Accession Number
- 1997/2.36
- Title
- Scenes from the Life of the Buddha: Adoration of the Buddha Dimpakara, Conception, Prophecy, Birth (architectural fragment)
- Artist Nationality
- Indian
- Medium and Support
- stone
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd century - 3rd century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Iuliana and Mark Phillips
- Style/Group/Movement
- Buddhist
- Dimensions
- 16.5 cm x 39 cm x 5.8 cm (6 1/2 in. x 15 3/8 in. x 2 5/16 in.)
- Century
- 2nd-3rd century
- Physical Description
- A curved stone, originally a facing on the drum of a small stupa, carved with a narrative scene.
- Subject Matter
- A fragment of of the base of a small stupa, with relief depictions of a fence above and narrative scenes from the life of the Buddha below. From right to left, in the order they would be encountered by a devotee circumambulating the stupa, these are:
- 1) Siddhartha prostrates before the Buddha Dipamkara in a previous life.
- 2) Maya's dream: the conception of Sidhartha, when his mother dreams that an elephant enters her side
- 3) The prophecy of the sage Ajita to King Suddhodana and his Quene Maya, that their son will become a cakravartin (= universal ruler)
- 4) Siddhartha's birth, emerging from Maya's side as she grasps a tree in Lumbini Grove
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1423 x 933
- File Size
- 142 KB
- Record
- 1997/2.36
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"Scenes from the Life of the Buddha: Adoration of the Buddha Dimpakara, Conception, Prophecy, Birth (architectural fragment); Gandhara (ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1997-sl-2.36/1997_2.36.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.