Votive Tablets
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Twenty-eight votive tablets and six pieces of votive tablets of thin clay composition impressed in relief on the front with a figure of the Buddha, and backed with a pipal leaf. Each tablet conforms to the shape and irregularities of the backing pipal-leaf (the leaf is in most cases now nearly rubbed away). It is impressed from a mould. On each tablet is the figure of Gautama the Buddha seated in the 'earth-witness' pose, within a shrine resembling the Maha Bodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya. Around are miniature stupas which vary in number with the different tablets and at the bottom of the front is the Buddhist Creed 'Ye Dharma' etc in Devanagari characters. Two of the fragments belong to two of the tablets and have been joined to them, ie No.34 to No.2 and No.28 to 33.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 34 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Clay, moulded |
| Brief description | 28 votive tablets and 6 pieces of Buddhist votive tablets, each with a figure of the Buddha on the front and backed with a pipal leaf, clay, Bodh Gaya, India |
| Physical description | Twenty-eight votive tablets and six pieces of votive tablets of thin clay composition impressed in relief on the front with a figure of the Buddha, and backed with a pipal leaf. Each tablet conforms to the shape and irregularities of the backing pipal-leaf (the leaf is in most cases now nearly rubbed away). It is impressed from a mould. On each tablet is the figure of Gautama the Buddha seated in the 'earth-witness' pose, within a shrine resembling the Maha Bodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya. Around are miniature stupas which vary in number with the different tablets and at the bottom of the front is the Buddhist Creed 'Ye Dharma' etc in Devanagari characters. Two of the fragments belong to two of the tablets and have been joined to them, ie No.34 to No.2 and No.28 to 33. |
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| Credit line | Given by the Royal Asiatic Society of London |
| Object history | Lent by the Royal Asiatic Society of London to the India Museum. Transferred from the India Museum to South Kensington Museum in November 1879. Renumbered in 1924. |
| Production | Indeterminate date |
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| Other number | 09216(IS) - India Museum Catalogue Number |
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| Accession number | IM.563:1-1924 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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