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Part of a stupa drum panel showing monks offering a seat to the Buddha perhaps before the First Sermon. The haloed Buddha stands turned towards the monks, an over-robe covering both shoulders and two undergarments visible below, his right hand across his chest, palm inwards, the left securing the robe. His hair runs in curved grooves into the u??i?a and forms a small oval above the forehead. Beside him Vajrapa?i, almost frontal, long-haired and muscular and wearing a loincloth, holds a faceted vajra vertically in his left hand. The Buddha is approached by four tonsured figures, their right shoulders bare. The first bends forward to offer a circular seat with a hatched motif round the base but otherwise wholly draped, while the other two full-length figures join their hands. At the top is a cavetto between fillets enriched with a pattern of acanthus leaves with a drooping lobe in the middle and flanking lobes with points meeting those of adjacent leaves.
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