[Ind-Arch] Tripura Idols: a photo

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Well, if this is a photograph of the murti

mentioned in Kalyanaraman's mail dated 16.3.2006

and cited as:

 

"Two gold idols have been recovered from a pond in

Tripura... [...] The idols were found by labourers

Wednesday at Bishramganj in west Tripura, about 35

km from here. One of the idols is a nine-inch

Buddha flanked by two dancing girls ..."

 

then the description is defintely wrong. There are

no dancing girls at all (could have been Maras

daughters, but they are obviously not...). On the

left there is a female holding some items of

devotion and on the right there is a male person,

could possibly be a vajrapani.

 

And one more question: Is the material of the

murti really gold as mentioned in the first

report? I'm not really sure from the photograph...

 

Regards,

Volker

 

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YMalaiya schrieb:

> *An Indian worker showing an idol unearthed while digging a pond in

> the Tuichama village of Bishramganj area, 40 km south of Agartala,

> capital of northeastern state Tripura on Friday, March 17, 2006. Two

> idols were discovered till now including one of the Hindu god of

> Preserver- Lord Vishnu and another of Lord Buddha, which according to

> critics resemble that in the past in this region Hinduism and Buddhism

> existed side by side. At two other nearby places namely Pilak and

> Bakshanagar, similar idols were found while digging and later during

> excavation the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) found different

> evidences including Hindu temple and Buddhist monasteries which were

> recently visited by a team of Japanese government. *

>

> http://www.tripurainfo.com/cgi-bin/photo/photodisplay.cgi?MODE=Show&ID=731

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