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The production of votives and other auspicious objects was an important activity, both for objects to be deposited by pilgrims as meritorious offerings, and to be taken away as pilgrim souvenirs. This clay votive would have served as  a religious souvenir. It depicts the Buddha enthroned on a lotus (<i>padmasana</i>), seated in the earth-touching gesture (<i>bhumisparshamudra</i>). He is flanked by two flywhisk-bearing attendant bodhisattvas, one flanked by a lotus stem, suggesting an identification as Avalokiteshvara-Padmapani. All three figures have flaming halos, standing on lotus plinths. The Buddha’s posture points to this seal being produced at Bodhgaya, the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment. 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The entire composition is surrounded by chaityas, small stupas, and a seal impression in the lower rim bears an indecipherable inscription.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"terracotta","id":"AAT10669"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Moulded terracotta clay","categories":[{"text":"Religion","id":"THES48900"},{"text":"Buddhism","id":"THES48984"}],"styles":[{"text":"Pala","id":"AAT18917"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2006BH6431"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"20","id":"THES49852"},"free":"","case":"CA1","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Votive seal","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Bihar","id":"x29823"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"from Bodhgaya"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"10th century","earliest":"0900-01-01","latest":"1000-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Alexander Biancardi","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"8.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"at widest point","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Bequeathed by Alex Biancardi","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Votive seal with the Buddha and attendant Bodhisattvas, terracotta, Bodhgaya, 10th century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"L'escultura en el temples indis : l'art de la devoció : exposició organitzada per la Fundació \"La Caixa\" i el Victoria & Albert Museum, Londres. 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It shows the Buddha justbefore his enlightenment, touching the ground \r\nto ask the earth to witness his resistance to \r\ntemptation. On either side are two bodhisattvas \r\n(Buddhist saviours). \r\n\r\nTerracotta \r\nEastern India (possibly Bodhgaya, Bihar) \r\n\r\n\r\nBequeathed by Alexander Biancardi\r\nMuseum no. IS.123-1999 \r\n","date":{"text":"06/06/2011","earliest":"2011-06-06","latest":"2011-06-06"}}],"partNumbers":["IS.123-1999"],"accessionNumberNum":"123","accessionNumberPrefix":"IS","accessionYear":1999,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LW2252"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-26","recordCreationDate":"2002-04-18","availableToBook":false}}