On The Antiquity of Nepalese Metalcraft: The Buddha of Guita Bahi

Sakyamuni Buddha
Cast Copper with traces of gilding, with gilt repousse copper covering removed, but repousse sleeves on left and right arms still in place.
h. approx 66 in 168 cm
Nepal, ca.
Prathamaśrī Mahāvihāra, Guita, Patan

Photo: Ian Alsop, Feb. 4, 2008

Details: see thumbnails below
Detail 1, another view, photo Vajra Alsop, Sept. 7, 2019
Note here the repousse sleeves covering the shoulder have been removed, but the forearms are still covered.
Detail 2, body, photo Ian Alsop, Feb. 4, 2008
Detail 3, pedestal and feet, photo Ian Alsop, Feb. 4, 2008
Detail 4, right hand, photo Ian Alsop, Feb. 4, 2008
Detail 5, base closeup, photo Ian Alsop, July 30, 2010

Published (with repousse covering):
Slusser, Mary Shepherd, 1982, Nepal Mandala, two vols. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press), vol. 2, plates 485, 486
Dīpaṇkara Buddha, copper repousse 13th c. (?)

Vajracarya, Herakaji, 1999 (N.S. 1119) Guita Vihāra Sangh (Gustala Mahāvihāra, Prathamaśrī mahāvihāra, Vasuccaśīla Mahāvihāra chagu adyayana (A study of the Guita Bhai vihāra Sangha) (Dipavatī Putsakālaya, Guita, Patan)

The main deity of Prathama Śrī Mahāvihāra (Prathamaśrī mahāvihāra gandhurī devatā).