Details
- Title : VASUDHARA
- Year : 16th to 17th Century
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Gilt-bronze
- Dimension : Height 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.)
- Accession No : GNM_LOT 98_PUN_31
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Collection : PUNDOLE’S
- Status : LIVE AUCTION The Art of the Himalayas from the Collection of Roshan Sabavala (M0009) (As per DEC 2021)
- ESTIMATED : ₹200,000 - ₹300,000
- SOLD : ₹200,000
- NOTE : Vasudhara is seated in lalitasana on a pierced lotus pedestal with a beaded rim, her pendant right foot resting on a lotus blossom. She holds the scriptures, a water pot, a sheaf of grain, and jewels in her six hands. She is adorned with a heavy beaded necklace, foliate armbands and large circular earrings, her head is surmounted by an elaborate crown and a sash with heavy tassels falls around her thighs. Vasudhara is the goddess of well-being, granting everything that is needed for a life blessed with prosperity, wealth, fertility and free from any hardships. She is the Buddhist counterpart to the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. In her six-armed form, she is seen as the partner of the god of wealth, Jambhala, who emanates from the five Tathagatas. Compare to a figure of Vasudhara formerly in the Berti Aschmann Collection, illustrated in Helmut Uhlig, On the Path to Enlightenment. The Berti Aschmann Foundation of Tibetan Art at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1995, p. 152.