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SculptureA clay offering doll depicting a human leading a monkey.
A small clay doll without the head. It depicts a naked man wearing necklace, belt and a bracelet. The right hand holds a chain that ties the monkey who sits between the two legs and the left hand holds fruit.
SculptureThe Buddha Image on Vanaspati
The Lord Buddha stands on a lotus on a vehicle. The Lord Buddha is surrounded by two people, one on each side. Both hands depict the giving sermon attitude and there is a hole on the leg. The vehicle is a mixed animal. It has wings, a beak, horns. Such animal is commonly called Vanaspati. One person on the sides holds a whip and the other holds an umbrella. It is therefore assumed that these people are Indra and Brahman.
SculptureThe Buddha Image on Vanaspati
The Lord Buddha stands on a vehicle and surrounded by two people, one on each side. Both hands depict the giving sermon attitude and there is a hole on the leg. The vehicle is a large half-body human with wings. The vehicle wears a tube-shaped crown and holds lotus in each side of the hands. Some scholars called this type of vehicle Phra Arunathip or the sun. Above each lotus is a standing human. Despite being damaged, it can still be seen that one human holds a whip. It is therefore assumed that these people are Indra and Brahman.
SculptureThe Reclining Buddha
This reclining Buddha was constructed by piling large sandstones and craving them into a Buddha image. It is in reclining on the right (so called Sri Saiyas). The right arm is laid on the ground to support the head. The left arm is place on the body. Both feet are placed evenly. The face is made of craving of several sandstones and has several conventional Dvaravati characteristics including square face, prominent and connected eyebrows, low-looking and prominent eyes, large nose, big mount.
SculptureThe Buddha image of meditation attitude
This Buddha image is seated in a meditation attitude with one foot being on top of the other. The hand shows meditation attitude. The characteristics include square face, prominent and connected eyebrows, low-looking and prominent eyes, large nose, big mount, prominent Usaneesa, a lotus bud halo. The images wears an even monastic robe in an askew manner.
SculptureThe Twin Miracles Sculpture
This rock-craved sculpture depicts the twin miracles scene at Sawasti to fight the non-believers. The Lord Buddha sits on a throne with dropping leg and the right hand is in the giving sermon attitude.Both sides are surrounded with people. On each side, there is a horizontal line dividing people into two groups. This might mean that under the straight line is the earth and over the straight line is heaven. Therefore, the group of people under the line on the right of the Lord Buddha might be King Pasenthikosol and his followers, whereas people on the other side might be the defeated non-believers. The group of people above the line might be people on the heaven. On the right, it might be Indra and other gods, whereas on the left might be Brahman. On the branches of the tree, there are 7 Lord Buddha in different postures.
SculptureBuddha Image
The standing Buddha Image with his right hand in vitarkamudra or preaching gesture. Although the Buddha lost his left hand, but it’s likely that it is showing the same hand gesture. The Buddha is wearing a thin monastic robe covering his shoulders. The rounded hem of the outer robe is hanging down below the knee, while the undergarment hem is draped and flaring lower to his shins. Such monastic robe wearing style is commonly found amongst Buddha Images from the Northeast. The Buddha has a fairly square face with an Ūrṇā or a whorl of hair between the eyebrows and winged unibrow. His protuberant eyes are looking down towards the floor, and he has a large nose, large and protruding lips, and a cranial protuberance.
SculptureBuddha protected by the Naga
The high-relief Buddha Image under the naga is seated in meditation over the coiling up snake’s body. The Buddha is wearing a thin and plain monastic robe along his left arm while exposing his right shoulder with the hem of the uppergarment on his left shoulder. The Buddha is protected under the seven-headed naga. The face of the naga is a monkey lookalike, that is, a characteristic of nagas in the Dvaravati period. The Buddha is flanked by 2 cylindrical stupas, and 2 figures are sitting in front of the stupas. The base underneath the naga’s coiling up body is decorated with a lion head motif.
