bodhisattva distemper on cloth nepal

The bodhisattva holding a mala and kundika in his principle hands, a trishula and padma in his upper left and right hands, the white bodhisattva seated on a multicoloured lotus emerging from an elaborate jeweled kalasha vase, the scrolling vine supporting a naga and nagini worshipping below and further deities within scrolling vine above, an upper register of five Buddhas set against a scrollwork background, a Vajracharya puja scene lower left and a donor family lower right.

Hugo E. Kreijger, Kathmandu Valley Painting, The Jucker Collection, Boston, 1999, p. 44, no. 9.

Compare with Lakshacaitya paubha dated 1533; see Pal, 1978, pl. 100.