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He is seated cross-legged with the soles of his feet pointing upwards on a squab cushion resting on a draped plinth. A segment of a flat aureole behind his right shoulder and head is all that survives of a plain circular halo. His wavy hair falls down across his shoulders and is bound with a thick band across the top of his head and round a topknot above, which flops over on the left side in a loop. He has a prominent round urna in the middle of his forehead and a small moustache on his upper lip. He is richly bejewelled with a cylindrical plug earring in his right ear (the left one is now missing). He wears a torque round his neck and a heavy chain slung across his neck and right shoulder with a similar chain or an extension of this one falling between his breasts. In addition there is a cord hung diagonally across his chest and left shoulder with amulets hanging from its lower edge. An armband with a trefoil ornament is seen on his upper right arm.\r\nHis upper torso is bare, with a line across his waist and through his prominent navel indicating an intake of breath, except for a stole or <i>uttariya</i> which  is draped in folds over his left shoulder and across his right elbow, down across the front of his legs in a large loop and up over the left shoulder with one end emerging over his left elbow. 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