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Panel showing the Archery Contest. The haloed Bodhisattva, standing with his back to the viewer, wears a short paridhana, and below a chignon his hair runs in dense curves down to the neck. His thick cylindrical left arm is fully stretched, while his right draws back the bowstring and arrow to the ear. The muscular appearance of his back is enhanced by broad shoulders above his narrow waist. A figure in a flexed stance, with thick curls at the sides, moustache, collar of cylindrical beads, bracelet and paridhana, holds a forked arrow, point downwards, across the body. Between this figure and the Bodhisattva appears the head, with chignon and moustache, of an observer. Beneath the bow a hairy, tailed monkey seems to be struggling to hold back a damaged cylindrical object which looks almost like a support for the bow rather than a quiver. The arrow points straight into the raised lotus-shaped centre of a target set into a tree. The framed Corinthian columns have the usual base mouldings. On the right are vestiges of another scene. A plain fillet frames the panel below.
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