This bronze
statue, on a roundabout
in
Ayutthaya,
which is surrounded by
eight bronze figures of
Gajasingha
(fig.), i.e. mythological
lions
with the head of an elephant,
depicts three
Kinnari,
i.e.
female mythical beings that are half-bird half-woman
(fig.),
holding up a fourth Kinnari (fig.), who has one arm raised and
is holding a lotus flower in the air. |