Worshippers Giving Offerings to the Bodhi Tree
AD 100s
Maker Unknown
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Worshippers Giving Offerings to the Bodhi Tree, AD 100s. Southern India, Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati, Satavahana Period (c. 100 BC - c. AD 200). Limestone; overall: 80 x 57.1 cm (31 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1970.43 The square railing surrounding the base of the trunk is the marker of a sacred tree. This tree has the distinctive heart-shaped leaves of the Bodhi tree (ficus religiosa), which is the type of tree under which the Buddha reached enlightenment. Each of the the worshippers holds a narrow-necked pot with lotus flowers emerging from the mouth. The lotus flowers are a symbol for water, so these figures are pouring offerings of pure water to the sacred tree.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- limestone
- Medium
- limestone
- Dimensions
- Overall: 80 x 57.1 cm (31 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 1970.43
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1970, Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture, Sacred India, Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 242A Ancient India
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