20. Note on a Buddhist Sculpture from Kandy, Ceylon. 
By J. Pa. Vocrt, Pu.D. 
[With Plates XX—XXIV.] 
which he obtained supreme 
aidan sculptors evidently found it impossible to express directly 
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phy this posture (mudra) is designated as ‘<the attitude of touch- 
ing the earth’? (Skt. bhimisparéamudra*). In the miniature 
figure kneeling on a lotus-flower beneath Buddha’s right hand 
letmann, pp. 299-343) and the 22nd Abhisambodhana (pp. 343-397). 
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text, the Bodhisattva di h the earth, but stre rth 
“ye a did not exactly touc arth, ; mye 
his hand towards it. Civaragabbhantarato da a nt ann. 
beet (i Mahapathaviabhimukham hatthamn pasGrest. (Jataka, en. 
Pp. 74), 
