Tara

Standing with slight flexion of the body, the figure of Tara holds the stem of an utpalain the left hand. The right hand, though broken, appears to have been invarada mudra. Clad in a lower garment and a transparent uttariya and wearing all ornaments she is accompanied on the right side by four-armed Eakajata. She holds an elephant’s skin by the two upper hands and akartriand akapalaby the two lower hands. To the left of Tara stands a male figure (Manjusri?), a sword in his right hand and apasaentwined in his left. The inscribed pedestal bears a seated musician. The back slab bears the effigies ofDhyaniBuddhas Akshobhya and Amitabha on either side of the head of the central figure.