Tara

The two-armed figure of Tara, the supreme goddess of the Buddhist pantheon stands with a slight flexion of the body. Holding the stalk of a water lily (utpala)in her left hand and the right displaying thevarada mudra, the figure is attended on her right by a four-armed Ekajata (identifiable by the elephant goad held by the two upperhand andkartriandkapalaby the two lower hands) and another female figure holding a flywhisk in the right hand and an axe in the left. The Buddhist creed is inscribed on the pedestal. The back slab edged with beaded and petal designs bears a miniature stupa.