A
Buddha image from 1183 AD in the National Museum in Bangkok. Usually the
pahng nahg prok
position is portrayed with a meditating Buddha with a
pahng samahti
mudra
(fig.)
and refers to a legend almost at the end of the story of
the Buddha's
Enlightenment.
This image however, in
Srivijaya
style and found in
Chaiya, is
seated in the
maravijaya
or
bhumisparsa position (fig.),
an episode at the beginning of the legendary life story of the Buddha, before
his Enlightenment. The combination of both positions possibly refers to a
summary of the entire story.
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